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The Republican party in the age of Roosevelt : sources of anti-government conservatism in the United States

Elliot A. Rosen (Author)
Elliot Rosen's Hoover, Roosevelt, and the Brains Trust focused on the transition from the Hoover administration to that of Roosevelt and the formulation of the early New Deal program. Roosevelt, the Great Depression, and the Economics of Recovery emphasized long-term and structural recovery programs as well as the 1937-38 recession. Rosens final book in the trilogy, The Republican Party in the Age of Roosevelt, situates distrust of the federal government and the consequent transformation of the party. Domestic and foreign policies introduced by the Roosevelt administration created division between the parties. The Hoover doctrine, which sought to restrict the reach of independent agencies at the federal level in order to restore business confidence and investment, intended to reverse the New Deal and to curb the growth of federal functions
eBook, English, 2014
University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville, 2014
History
1 online resource (xiv, 229 pages) : illustrations
9780813935553, 9781306396615, 0813935555, 1306396611
874041967
Herbert Hoover and the Ark of the Covenant
Landon of Kansas : the GOP as corporate shell?
Forging an antistatist consensus
The GOP and the prelude to war
Party of the Bourbons
The interloper
Republican resurgence : Taft
Challenging isolation : the provocateur, the patrician, and the mediator
Willkie's legacy and the GOP
Sources of modern Republican party ideology
English