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New Deal or raw deal? : how FDR's economic legacy has damaged America / Burton W. Folsom, Jr. ; [Introduction by Stephen Moore].

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: New York : Threshold Editions, 2008.Edition: 1st Threshold Editions hardcover edDescription: xvi, 318 pages ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9781416592228 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 1416592229 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 973.917
LOC classification:
  • 002 E 806 F671n 2008
Online resources:
Contents:
The making of the myth: FDR and the New Deal FDR's rise to power: political skill, ambition, and deception What caused the Great Depression? The NRA: why price-fixing damaged American business The AAA: how it hurt farming Relief and the WPA: did they really help the unemployed? More public programs that fell short: the Air Mail Act, FERA Camps, and TVA Financial interference: manipulation of gold and silver markets, tariffs, stocks, and banks Safety net or quagmire? minimum wage, social security, and labor relations No free ride: the burden of excise, income, and corporate taxes The IRS: FDR's personal weapon Patronage transformed: the elections of 1934 and 1936 FDR stumbles: court packing, the purge, and the issue of race How FDR's deception tarnished the presidency forever What FDR should have done: cut spending, tax rates, and the tariff What finally did end the Great Depression? Why historians have missed the mark The New Deal and repercussions for today's economy
Summary: A revisionist perspective on FDR's presidency and the New Deal argues that such government programs as social security, minimum wage, and farm subsidies didn't work in the 1930s and do not work now, in a critical report that traces many modern problems to the FDR administration
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-312) and index.

The making of the myth: FDR and the New Deal
FDR's rise to power: political skill, ambition, and deception
What caused the Great Depression?
The NRA: why price-fixing damaged American business
The AAA: how it hurt farming
Relief and the WPA: did they really help the unemployed?
More public programs that fell short: the Air Mail Act, FERA Camps, and TVA
Financial interference: manipulation of gold and silver markets, tariffs, stocks, and banks
Safety net or quagmire? minimum wage, social security, and labor relations
No free ride: the burden of excise, income, and corporate taxes
The IRS: FDR's personal weapon
Patronage transformed: the elections of 1934 and 1936
FDR stumbles: court packing, the purge, and the issue of race
How FDR's deception tarnished the presidency forever
What FDR should have done: cut spending, tax rates, and the tariff
What finally did end the Great Depression?
Why historians have missed the mark
The New Deal and repercussions for today's economy

A revisionist perspective on FDR's presidency and the New Deal argues that such government programs as social security, minimum wage, and farm subsidies didn't work in the 1930s and do not work now, in a critical report that traces many modern problems to the FDR administration

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