Table of Contents

1: Introduction
2: The World Crisis
3: Before the New Deal
4: How did we get caught?"
5: The New Deal vs. the Constitution
6: FDR, His Friends, and His Enemies
7: The New Deal that Lasted
8: Working for the United States of America
9: The New Deal in War and Peace
10: The New Deal Legacy

About the Author

Eric Rauchway is Professor of History at the University of California, Davis. He is the author most recently of Blessed Among Nations: How the World Made America and Murdering McKinley: The Making of Theodore Roosevelt's America. He has written for The American Prospect, The Financial Times (a regular columnist while teaching at Oxford), The New Republic Online, and MSNBC's "Altercation."

Reviews

"Rauchway boils it down to 150 pages. He calls it: The Great Depression and the New Deal: A Very Short Introduction. I call it required reading."--Laura Conaway, NPR's Planet Money
"Everybody's talking new New Deal these days... Eric Rauchway is all over this."-Paul Krugman, The New York Times
"This well written, informative and illustrated book sets the scene, introduces the analysis and paves the way for an informed debate from which we can--and should--learn much."--Andrew Dodgshon, Tribune (UK)