Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time

Name: Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time
Author: Ira. Katznelson
ISBN: 9780871406606

Ira. Katznelson

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Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time

Ira. Katznelson

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A work that examines the New Deal through the lens of a pervasive, almost existential fear that gripped a world defined by the collapse of capitalism and the rise of competing dictatorships, as well as a fear created by the ruinous racial divisions in American society. Ira Katznelson argues that American democracy was both saved and distorted by a Faustian collaboration that guarded racial segregation as it built a new national state to manage capitalism and assert global power. Fear Itself charts the creation of the modern American state and how a belief in the common good gave way to a central government dominated by interest-group politics and obsessed with national security.

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