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The New Deal and the “Broker State:” A Review of the Recent Scholarly Literature

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 June 2012

John Braeman
John Braeman
Affiliation:
Professor of History, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
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Abstract

Professor Braeman evaluates historians' current assessment of Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, finding a new consensus emerging among scholars of that important era in American history.

Type
Review Article
Information
Business History Review , Volume 46 , Issue 4 , Winter 1972 , pp. 409 - 429
Copyright
Copyright © The President and Fellows of Harvard College 1972

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References

1 See, for examples, Bernstein, Barton J., “The New Deal: The Conservative Achievements of Liberal Reform,” in Bernstein, , ed., Towards a New Past: Dissenting Essays in American History (New York, 1968), 263–288Google Scholar, and Conkin, Paul, The New Deal (New York, 1967)Google Scholar.

2 Auerbach, Jerold S., “New Deal, Old Deal, or Raw Deal: Some Thoughts on New Left Historiography,” Journal of Southern History, XXXV (February, 1969), 18–30CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

3 Parrish, Michael E., Securities Regulation and the New Deal (Yale Historical Publications Miscellany, 93: Yale University Press, New Haven, Conn., and London, 1970), xi + 270 pp., $8.75Google Scholar; McCraw, Thomas K., TVA and the Power Fight, 1933–1939 (Critical Periods of History: J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, New York, Toronto, 1971), xi + 201Google Scholar pp., $5.95 (hardbound), $2.45 (paperback);Hirshfield, Daniel S., The Lost Reform: The Campaign for Compulsory Health Insurance in the United States from 1932 to 1943 (A Commonwealth Fund Book: Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1970), xi + 221 pp., $8.50CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Brennan, John A., Silver and the First New Deal (University of Nevada Press, Reno, Nevada, 1969), v + 187 pp., $5.50Google Scholar; and Wolters, Raymond, Negroes and the Great Depression: The Problem of Economic Recovery (Contributions in American History Number Six: Greenwood Publishing Corporation, Westport, Conn., 1970), xvii + 398Google Scholar pp., $13.50, paperback edition 1971, $2.95.

4 The shortcomings of the New Deal's cotton program re southern tenants and sharecroppers are explored in depth in Conrad, David E., The Forgotten Farmers: The Story of the Sharecroppers in the New Deal (Urbana, III., 1965)Google Scholar, Cantor, Louis, A Prologue to the Protest Movement: The Missouri Sharecropper Roadside Demonstrations of 1939 (Durham, N.C., 1969)Google Scholar, and Grubbs, Donald H., Cry from the Cotton: The Southern Tenant Farmers' Union and the New Deal (Chapel Hill, N.C., 1971).Google Scholar

5 Leuchtenburg, William E., Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932–1940 (New York, 1963), 146.Google Scholar

6 See, on this point, Lawson, R. Alan, The Failure of Independent Liberalism, 1930–1941 (New York, 1971).Google Scholar