Lives of the New Dealers
There is no grander age of unelected heroes in American government and society at large than the early twentieth century. And in all the epic decades of the early twentieth century, there is no time more focused, more electric, more clear in its implications for the possibility of public action, than the gloomy crisis years of the 1930s and ’40s—years dominated on the American home front by that motley gallery of talented, sympathetic misfits from everywhere and nowhere called the “New Dealers”…
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