| Description |
1 online resource (392 pages) |
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Kentucky paperbacks ; KP123 |
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Kentucky paperbacks
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| Contents |
A tractable Congress -- A long hot summer -- Senate realignments: the court controversy -- The Senate: sectional and economic divisions -- Politics of independence: the House -- Groping and coalition -- Recession politics, 1938 -- Coalitions and elections: the purge -- Zenith of coalition, 1939 -- Coalition in retrospect. rc |
| Summary |
History faced by the disaster of depression, Congress in the early 1930s proved amenable to the far-reaching demands and programs presented to it by the newly elected President, Franklin D. Roosevelt, but by 1937 it showed increasing resistance, even outright opposition, to many New Deal measures. In this study, James T. Patterson examines this resurgence of conservative strength in Congress, focusing upon the personalities and backgrounds of the men involved and upon the key domestic issues which brought them together in an informal coalition opposed to executive plans, especially for the yea |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed February 3, 2015) |
| Subject |
Conservatism -- United States
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies -- Conservatism & Liberalism.
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Conservatism
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Politics and government
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Social policy
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140464
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United States -- Social policy.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140547
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| Subject |
United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Organization of American Historians
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| ISBN |
9780813164045 |
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0813164044 |
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