Good Book Defending New Deal?

[durutti]

I'm interested in books defending the New Deal and its legacy. Great Society, too. Any suggestions?

[RandomKoolzip]

1. Try "Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression" by Studs

Terkel. As always, he lets the subjects tell their own stories, and this one made me weep more than once. Terkel lets the poor people who were devastated by the depression tell of how FDR and the New Deal helped them, but he also gives time to the asshole industrialists/capatalists/corporatists like Charles Stewart Mott, etc. to vent their hatred of FDR. Fair and balanced, I guess. Still, this book is best for anecdotes and recollections of a time and place, not for the nuts and bolts New Deal details. A very poignant read, methinks.

[Vikingking66]

2. The Coming of the New Deal by Arthur Shleshinger

If you want to see how the New Deal saved America
from itself and brought the world to a better place,
read this book.

[Stargleamer]

3. "The New Deal and the Triumph of Liberalism" by Sidney Milkis

has some good chapters in it. From that book, I learned that more people have visited the FDR memorial in Washington, D.C., and petted have touched the statues of Fala and FDR's wheelchair, then have visited any other Washington, D.C. attraction, including the Lincoln Memorial and Washington Monument. I believe that somewhere in the book the percentage of wealth that the very wealthy possess dropped 10 percentage points from 1920 to 1930, and stayed steady at that level until Reagan (and now Bush, Jr.) came long and further enriched the wealthy.