Preface Introduction A Leap into the Dark Misgivings The Combatants Confusion in the Ranks Creative Economics Collectivists and the Court Progressives and the Court The Good Society Disenchantment Epilogue Bibliography Index
Challenges the existing stereotypes and conventional wisdom concerning liberalism during the 1930s.
Gary Dean Best is Professor of History at the University of Hawaii at Hilo. His previous books include Pride, Prejudice, and Politics (Praeger, 1990), FDR and the Bonus Marchers (Praeger, 1992), and The Nickel and Dime Decade (Praeger, 1993).
"Gary Dean Best is the best historian currently writing on the New
Deal. In Retreat from Liberalism, he studies the many forces at
work during the 1930s that undermined traditional liberalism. The
New Deal, of course, was one of these forces, and Best does an
excellent job at showing the surprising resistance to
centralization under Franklin Roosevelt, even among many who voted
for him. Many former progressives found Roosevelt to be duplicitous
and dictatorial in his many attempts to centralize power in the
executive branch. Best's book ably fills a niche and is must
reading for New Deal historians."-Burton W. Folsom Jr. author, The
Myth of the Robber Barons
?Retreat from Liberalism is an excellent contribution to New Deal
historiography. Best does a fine job of differentiating and
contrasting the thinking of major collectivists and key liberals
during the 1930's. He shows how leading liberals changed over time
from supporting FDR and the New Deal, to mildly opposing it, to
vehemently opposing it...Best shows how much about the New Deal is
still not clearly understood by historians. I highly recommend the
book.?-NEWDEAL: USA, 1929-1952
?With its focus on the progressive critics of the New Deal, this is
a useful addition to New Deal collections. Recommended.
Upper-division undergraduates and above.?-Choice
"With its focus on the progressive critics of the New Deal, this is
a useful addition to New Deal collections. Recommended.
Upper-division undergraduates and above."-Choice
"Retreat from Liberalism is an excellent contribution to New Deal
historiography. Best does a fine job of differentiating and
contrasting the thinking of major collectivists and key liberals
during the 1930's. He shows how leading liberals changed over time
from supporting FDR and the New Deal, to mildly opposing it, to
vehemently opposing it...Best shows how much about the New Deal is
still not clearly understood by historians. I highly recommend the
book."-NEWDEAL: USA, 1929-1952
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