ISBN: 1630694630 9781630694630

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Page count: 319

"In 1929, the stock market crashed. Joblessness only mounted, reaching a disconcerting 25%. In 1932, a presidential candidate from the other party proposed to restore the jobs: "Our greatest primary task is to put people to work." In this "greatest primary task," the New Deal failed. One in ten Americans remained jobless. Yet if the New Deal failed, then so did its critics. Voters elected the New Deal president four times. Bestselling author Amity Shlaes gives voice to the sidelined New Deal critics. In their own words, but with contextualization from Shlaes, the critics lay out their arguments against the numerous New Deal programs. This book supplies the public with what has been sorely lacking for so long: the story of American opposition to the New Deal"--amazon.com.