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Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal Term Paper

" But, was that what the New Deal promised - to solve all America's social problems? Not at all; in fact, the New Deal was initiated to a) help pull America out of the Great Depression, which it did; b) to put people back to work, some kind of temporary work at least, to give them dignity and food on the table, which it did; c) to help rebuild infrastructure, roads, parks, etc., which it did; and d) to reform the economy to the point where investors, banks, citizens, and businesses felt more secure, which it did.

Auerbach is clearly not in the "New Left" camp, and he makes good arguments to counter the criticisms of the "New Left," but that was a long time ago, and the New Deal looks pretty good from the perspective of 2005, when one considers what any alternatives might have been able to accomplish.

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Auerbach, Jerold S. (1969) New Deal, Old Deal, or Raw Deal: Some Thoughts on New

Left Historiography. The Journal of Southern History 35 (February): 18-30.

Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum. Educational Programs. Accessed 22 February, 2005 at http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/index.html.

Garraty, John a. (1973). The New Deal, National Socialism, and the Great Depression.

The American Historical Review 78 (October): 907-944.

Kirkendall,...

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(1968). The New Deal as Watershed: The Recent Literature. The Journal of American History 54 (March): 839-852.
Lewis-Beck, Michael S. (1991). The Transformation of the American State: The New

Era-New Deal Test. The Journal of Politics 53 (February): 106-121.

Rosen, Elliot a. (1972). Roosevelt and the Brains Trust: An Historiographical Overview.

Political Science Quarterly 87 (December): 531-557.

The Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, "Educational Programs," [

http://www.fdrlibrary.maris.edu/edprog34.html]February, 2005.

Richard S. Kirkendall, "The New Deal as Watershed: the Recent Literature," the Journal of American History, March 1968, 839-852.

Michael S. Lewis-Beck, "The Transformation of the American State: The New Era-New Deal Test," the Journal of Politics, February 1991, 106-121.

John a. Garraty, "The New Deal, National Socialism, and the Great Depression," the American Historical Review, October 1973, 907-944.

Elliot a. Rosen, "Roosevelt and the Brains Trust: An Historiographical Overview," Political Science Quarterly, December 1972, 531-557.

Jerold S. Auerbach, "New Deal, Old Deal, or Raw Deal: Some thoughts on New Left Historiography," the Journal of Southern History, February 1969, 18-30.

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References

Auerbach, Jerold S. (1969) New Deal, Old Deal, or Raw Deal: Some Thoughts on New

Left Historiography. The Journal of Southern History 35 (February): 18-30.

Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum. Educational Programs. Accessed 22 February, 2005 at http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/index.html.

Garraty, John a. (1973). The New Deal, National Socialism, and the Great Depression.
http://www.fdrlibrary.maris.edu/edprog34.html]February, 2005.
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