The New Deal

by Paul K. Conkin

Book Overview

Demonstrating the intellectual excitement that is the practice of history at its best, Paul Conkin's The New Deal is still one of the best known titles in the very popular American History Series,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0882958895
• ISBN13: 9780882958897
• Release Date: December 1991
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 122 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.4" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

One Man's Viewpoint

The other reviewer's a goof, Conkin's view was that the New Deal was a poor solution to a desperate period. He offers many criticisms and kind of contradicts himself. Like many of the New Left critics, he expects contemporaries to have foresight as keen as his hindsight. That said, he also has a good understanding of people and history, which outshines his blatant disliking of FDR. Good intro to a confusing subject. Unintentionally funny at times too. Also he specifically says that FDR was NOT PRAGMATIC. *** 1/2