The Second Red Scare and the Unmaking of the New Deal Left

by Landon R.Y. Storrs

Book Overview

How Red Scare politics undermined the reform potential of the New Deal

In the name of protecting Americans from Soviet espionage, the post-1945 Red Scare curtailed the reform agenda of the New Deal. The crisis of the Great Depression had brought into government a group of policy experts who argued that saving democracy required attacking economic and social inequalities. The influence of these men and women within the Franklin D...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691166749
• ISBN13: 9780691166742
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"