Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time
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.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Year
- 2013
- ISBN-13
- 9780871406606
- Genre
- History
- Topics
- New DealRacial segregationAmerican state formation
Awards
- Bancroft PrizeWon(2014)
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