Invisible Hands: The Businessmen's Crusade Against the New Deal - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Invisible Hands: The Businessmen's Crusade Against the New Deal write by Kim Phillips-Fein. This book was released on 2010-07-12. Invisible Hands: The Businessmen's Crusade Against the New Deal available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “A compelling and readable story of resistance to the new economic order.” —Boston Globe In the wake of the profound economic crisis known as the Great Depression, a group of high-powered individuals joined forces to campaign against the New Deal—not just its practical policies but the foundations of its economic philosophy. The titans of the National Association of Manufacturers and the chemicals giant DuPont, together with little-known men like W. C. Mullendore, Leonard Read, and Jasper Crane, championed European thinkers Friedrich von Hayek and Ludwig von Mises and their fears of the “nanny state.” Through fervent activism, fundraising, and institution-building, these men sought to educate and organize their peers as a political force to preserve their profit margins and the “American way” of doing business. In the public relations department of General Electric, they would find the perfect spokesman: Ronald Reagan. Some images in the ebook are not displayed owing to permissions issues.
Fear City
Fear City - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fear City write by Kim Phillips-Fein. This book was released on 2017-04-18. Fear City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST An epic, riveting history of New York City on the edge of disaster—and an anatomy of the austerity politics that continue to shape the world today When the news broke in 1975 that New York City was on the brink of fiscal collapse, few believed it was possible. How could the country’s largest metropolis fail? How could the capital of the financial world go bankrupt? Yet the city was indeed billions of dollars in the red, with no way to pay back its debts. Bankers and politicians alike seized upon the situation as evidence that social liberalism, which New York famously exemplified, was unworkable. The city had to slash services, freeze wages, and fire thousands of workers, they insisted, or financial apocalypse would ensue. In this vivid account, historian Kim Phillips-Fein tells the remarkable story of the crisis that engulfed the city. With unions and ordinary citizens refusing to accept retrenchment, the budget crunch became a struggle over the soul of New York, pitting fundamentally opposing visions of the city against each other. Drawing on never-before-used archival sources and interviews with key players in the crisis, Fear City shows how the brush with bankruptcy permanently transformed New York—and reshaped ideas about government across America. At once a sweeping history of some of the most tumultuous times in New York's past, a gripping narrative of last-minute machinations and backroom deals, and an origin story of the politics of austerity, Fear City is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the resurgent fiscal conservatism of today.
Invisible Hands
Invisible Hands - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Invisible Hands write by Kim Phillips-fein. This book was released on 2009-01-13. Invisible Hands available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Invisible Hands is the story of how a small group of American businessmen succeeded in building a political movement and changing the world. Kim Phillips-Fein's meticulous research and narrative gifts reveal the dramatic story of a pragmatic, step-by-step, check-by-check campaign to promote an ideological revolution, one that ultimately propelled conservative ideas to electoral triumph. Invisible Hands is essential to understanding the role of big and small business in American politics - and a blueprint for anyone who wants insight into the way in which money has been used to create political change."--BOOK JACKET.
The New Deal
The New Deal - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The New Deal write by Michael Hiltzik. This book was released on 2011-09-13. The New Deal available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From first to last the New Deal was a work in progress, a patchwork of often contradictory ideas.
Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal
Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal write by William E. Leuchtenburg. This book was released on 2009-02-24. Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When the stability of American life was threatened by the Great Depression, the decisive and visionary policy contained in FDR's New Deal offered America a way forward. In this groundbreaking work, William E. Leuchtenburg traces the evolution of what was both the most controversial and effective socioeconomic initiative ever undertaken in the United States—and explains how the social fabric of American life was forever altered. It offers illuminating lessons on the challenges of economic transformation—for our time and for all time.
