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A list of key readings about New Deal.

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## Contents

* 1 Bibliography
* 1.1 Secondary sources
* 1.2 Surveys
* 1.3 Specialized studies
* 1.3.1 Unemployment and Relief
* 1.3.2 State and local studies
* 1.4 Primary sources
* 2 Further reading

## Bibliography[edit]

### Secondary sources[edit]

### Surveys[edit]

* Alter, Jonathan. The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope (2006), popular account
* Badger, Anthony J. The New Deal: The Depression Years, 1933-1940. (2002) general survey from British perspective
* Chafe, William H. The Achievement of American Liberalism: The New Deal and Its Legacies. (2002) online edition
* Conkin, Paul K. The New Deal. (1967), a brief New Left critique.
* Dubofsky, Melvyn, ed. The New Deal: Conflicting Interpretations and Shifting Perspectives. (1992), reader
* Eden, Robert, ed. New Deal and Its Legacy: Critique and Reappraisal (1989), essays by conservative scholars
* Graham, Otis L. and Meghan Robinson Wander, eds. Franklin D. Roosevelt: His Life and Times. (1985). An encyclopedic reference.
* Himmelberg, Robert F. The Great Depression and the New Deal (2001) 185 pp. online edition
* Kennedy, David M. Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945. (1999), major survey by leading scholar online edition]
* Kirkendall, Richard S. . "The New Deal As Watershed: The Recent Literature," The Journal of American History, Vol. 54, No. 4. (Mar., 1968), pp. 839-852. in JSTOR, historiography
* Leuchtenberg, William E. Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1940. (1963). The standard interpretive history.
* McElvaine Robert S. The Great Depression 2nd ed (1993), social history
* McJimsey, George. The Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 2000.
* Milkis, Sidney M. and Jerome M. Mileur, eds. The New Deal and the Triumph of Liberalism (2002)
* Mitchell, Broadus. Depression Decade: From New Era through New Deal, 1929-1941 (1964), overview of economic history online edition
* Shlaes, Amity. The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression (2007), 480pp, popular
* Schlesinger, Arthur M. Jr., The Age of Roosevelt, 3 vols, (1957-1960), the classic narrative history. Online at vol 2 vol 3
* Sitkoff, Harvard. ed. Fifty Years Later: The New Deal Evaluated. (1984). A friendly liberal evaluation.

### Specialized studies[edit]

* Alexander, Barbara, and Gary D. Libecap. "The Effect of Cost Heterogeneity in the Success and Failure of the New Deal's Agricultural and Industrial Programs." Explorations in Economic History 37 (2000): 370-400.
* Allswang, John. The New Deal and American Politics (1978), voting analysis
* Beasley, Maurine H., Holly C. Shulman, Henry R. Beasley. The Eleanor Roosevelt Encyclopedia (2001) online edition
* Bernstein, Barton J. "The New Deal: The Conservative Achievements of Liberal Reform." In Barton J. Bernstein, ed., Towards a New Past: Dissenting Essays in American History, pp. 263-88. (1968), an influential New Left attack on the New Deal.
* Bernstein, Irving. Turbulent Years: A History of the American Worker, 1933-1941 (1970), cover labor unions
* Best, Gary Dean. The Critical Press and the New Deal: The Press Versus Presidential Power, 1933-1938 (1993) looks at conservative papers and magazines online edition
* Best, Gary Dean. Pride, Prejudice, and Politics. (1990), a conservative critique.
* Braeman, John, Robert H. Bremner, and David Brody, eds. The New Deal: The National Level. 1975\. online edition
* Brinkley, Alan. The End Of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War. (1995) what happened after 1937
* Burns, Helen M. The American Banking Community and New Deal Banking Reforms, 1933-1935 (1974) online edition
* Cushman, Barry. Rethinking the New Deal Court: The Structure of a Constitutional Revolution (1998) online edition
* Ekirch Jr., Arthur A. Ideologies and Utopias: The Impact of the New Deal on American Thought (1971) online edition
* Fraser, Steve and Gary Gerstle, eds., The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order, (1989), essays focused on the long-term results.
* Garraty, John A. "The New Deal, National Socialism, and the Great Depression," American Historical Review, 78, 4 (1973), pp. 907-44. in JSTOR
* Gordon, Colin. New Deals: Business, Labor, and Politics, 1920-1935 (1994)
* Hawley, Ellis W. The New Deal and the Problem of Monopoly (1966)
* Higgs, Robert. Crisis and Leviathan: Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government (1987), libertarian critique
* Ladd, Everett Carll and Charles D. Hadley. Transformations of the American Party System: Political Coalitions from the New Deal to the 1970s (1975), voting behavior online edition
* Leff, Mark H. The Limits of Symbolic Reform: The New Deal and Taxation (1984)
* Lindley, Betty Grimes and Ernest K. Lindley. A New Deal for Youth: The Story of the National Youth Administration (1938)
* Lowitt, Richard. The New Deal and the West (1984).
* Manza; Jeff. "Political Sociological Models of the U.S. New Deal" Annual Review of Sociology: 2000, 26 (2000): 297-322.
* Mathews, Jane De Hart. "Arts and the People: The New Deal Quest for a Cultural Democracy," Journal of American History 62 (1975): 316-39, in JSTOR
* Malamud; Deborah C. "'Who They Are - or Were': Middle-Class Welfare in the Early New Deal" University of Pennsylvania Law Review v 151 #6 2003. pp 2019+. online edition
* Parker, Randall E. Reflections on the Great Depression (2002) interviews with 11 leading economists
* Powell, Jim FDR's Folly: How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression (2003) sharp attack from the right
* Rosenof, Theodore. Economics in the Long Run: New Deal Theorists and Their Legacies, 1933-1993 (1997)
* Rosen, Elliot A. Roosevelt, the Great Depression, and the Economics of Recovery (2005) argues productivity gains were more responsible for long-term recovery than New Deal
* Rothbard, Murray. America's Great Depression (1963)], critique by a libertarian. online edition
* Saloutos, Theodore. The American Farmer and the New Deal (1982).
* Savage, James D. Balanced Budgets & American Politics. Cornell University Press. 1988.
* Sitkoff, Harvard. A New Deal for Blacks (1978).
* Skocpol, Theda, and Kenneth Finegold. "State Capacity and Economic Intervention in the Early New Deal." Political Science Quarterly 97 (1982): 255-78. Online at JSTOR .
* Skocpol, Theda, and Kenneth Finegold. "Explaining New Deal Labor Policy" American Political Science Review (1990) 84:1297-1304 online at JSTOR
* Vittoz, Stanley. New Deal Labor Policy and the American Industrial Economy 1987 online edition
* Ware, Susan. Beyond Suffrage: Women and the New Deal (1981)
* Wecter, Dixon. The Age of the Great Depression, 1929-1941 (1948), social history
* Zelizer; Julian E. "The Forgotten Legacy of the New Deal: Fiscal Conservatism and the Roosevelt Administration, 1933-1938" Presidential Studies Quarterly . V. 30#2 pp: 331+. (2000)

#### Unemployment and Relief[edit]

* Blumberg Barbara. The New Deal and the Unemployed: The View from New York City (1977).
* Bremer William W. "Along the American Way: The New Deal's Work Relief Programs for the Unemployed." Journal of American History 62 (December 1975): 636-652. 2.0.CO;2-0">online at JSTOR
* Brock William R. Welfare, Democracy and the New Deal (1988), a British view
* Charles, Searle F. Minister of Relief: Harry Hopkins and the Depression (1963)
* Hopkins, June. "The road not taken: Harry Hopkins and New Deal Work Relief." Presidential Studies Quarterly 29, 2(306-316). online edition
* Howard, Donald S. The WPA and Federal Relief Policy (1943) online edition
* Jensen, Richard J. "The Causes and Cures of Unemployment in the Great Depression," Journal of Interdisciplinary History 19 (1989) 553-83. [ http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0022-1953(198921)19:4<553:TCACOU>2.0.CO;2-Tonline at JSTOR]
* McKinzie, Richard. The New Deal for Artists (1984), well illustrated scholarly study
* Meriam; Lewis. Relief and Social Security The Brookings Institution. (1946). Highly detailed analysis and statistical summary of all New Deal relief programs; 900 pages

online edition

* Sautter, Udo. Three Cheers for the Unemployed: Government and Unemployment before the New Deal (1992)
* Singleton, Jeff. The American Dole: Unemployment Relief and the Welfare State in the Great Depression (2000) online editionexcerpt and text search
* Smith, Jason Scott. Building New Deal Liberalism: The Political Economy of Public Works, 1933-1956 (2005). excerpt and text search
* Sternsher, Bernard. Rexford Tugwell and the New Deal (1964) online edition
* Szalay, Michael. New Deal Modernism: American Literature and the Invention of the Welfare State (2000)
* Watkins, T. H. The Hungry Years: A Narrative History of the Great Depression in America (2000) excerpt and text search
* Williams; Edward Ainsworth Federal Aid for Relief (1939) online edition

#### State and local studies[edit]

* Abrams, Douglas Carl. Conservative Constraints: North Carolina and the New Deal (1992) online edition
* Argersinger, Jo Ann., Toward a New Deal in Baltimore: People and Government in the Great Depression (1988) online edition
* Badger, Anthony J. Prosperity Road: The New Deal, Tobacco, and North Carolina (1980)online edition
* Cobb, James C., and Michael V. Namorato, eds. The New Deal and the South: Essays (1984) online edition
* Blumberg Barbara. The New Deal and the Unemployed: The View from New York City (1977).
* Grant, Michael Johnston. Down and Out on the Family Farm: Rural Rehabilitation in the Great Plains, 1929-1945 (2002)
* Ingalls, Robert P. Herbert H. Lehman and New York's Little New Deal (1975) online edition
* Patterson, James T. The New Deal and the States: Federalism in Transition (1969).
* Sternsher, Bernard ed., Hitting Home: The Great Depression in Town and Country (1970), essays by scholars on local history
* Tindall George B. The Emergence of the New South, 1915-1945 (1967). survey of entire South
* Trout Charles H. Boston, the Great Depression, and the New Deal (1977)

### Primary sources[edit]

* Bureau of the Census, Statistical Abstract of the United States: 1951 (1951) full of useful data; online
* Bureau of the Census, Historical Statistics of the United States: Colonial Times to 1970 (1976)
* Cantril, Hadley and Mildred Strunk, eds. Public Opinion, 1935-1946 (1951), massive compilation of many public opinion polls online edition
* Carter, Susan B. et al eds. The Historical Statistics of the United States (6 vol: Cambridge UP, 2006); huge compilation of statistical data; online at some universities
* Gallup, George Horace, ed. The Gallup Poll; Public Opinion, 1935-1971 3 vol (1972) summarizes results of each poll.
* Lowitt, Richard and Beardsley Maurice, eds. One Third of a Nation: Lorena Hickock Reports on the Great Depression (1981)
* McElvaine, Robert S. Down & out in the Great Depression: Letters from the "Forgotten Man" (1983); letters to Harry Hopkins; online edition
* Moley, Raymond. After Seven Years (1939), conservative memoir by ex-Brain Truster online edition
* Nixon, Edgar B. ed. Franklin D. Roosevelt and Foreign Affairs (3 vol 1969), covers 1933-37. 2nd series 1937-39 available on microfiche and in a 14 vol print edition at some academic libraries.
* Roosevelt, Franklin D.; Rosenman, Samuel Irving, ed. The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt (13 vol, 1938, 1945); public material only (no letters); covers 1928-1945.
* Documentary History of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Administration 20 vol. available in some large academic libraries.
* Zinn, Howard, ed. New Deal Thought (1966), a compilation of primary sources.

## Further reading[edit]

* Alter, Jonathan. The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope (2006), popular account
* Badger, Anthony J. The New Deal: The Depression Years, 1933-1940. (2002) general survey from British perspective
* Best, Gary Dean. The Critical Press and the New Deal: The Press Versus Presidential Power, 1933-1938 (1993) looks at conservative papers and magazines online edition
* Chafe, William H. The Achievement of American Liberalism: The New Deal and Its Legacies. (2002) online edition
* Conkin, Paul K. The New Deal. (1967), a brief New Left critique.
* Dubofsky, Melvyn, ed. The New Deal: Conflicting Interpretations and Shifting Perspectives. (1992), reader
* Eden, Robert, ed. New Deal and Its Legacy: Critique and Reappraisal (1989), essays by conservative scholars
* Graham, Otis L. and Meghan Robinson Wander, eds. Franklin D. Roosevelt: His Life and Times. (1985). An encyclopedic reference.
* Himmelberg, Robert F. The Great Depression and the New Deal (2001) 185 pp. online edition
* Kennedy, David M. Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945. (1999), major survey by leading scholar online edition]
* Kirkendall, Richard S. . "The New Deal As Watershed: The Recent Literature," The Journal of American History, Vol. 54, No. 4. (Mar., 1968), pp. 839-852. in JSTOR, historiography
* Leuchtenberg, William E. Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1940. (1963). The standard interpretive history.
* McElvaine Robert S. The Great Depression 2nd ed (1993), social history
* McJimsey, George. The Presidency of Franklin Delano Rooselvelt, 2000.
* Milkis, Sidney M. and Jerome M. Mileur, eds. The New Deal and the Triumph of Liberalism (2002)
* Mitchell, Broadus. Depression Decade: From New Era through New Deal, 1929-1941 (1964), overview of economic history online edition
* Moley, Raymond. After Seven Years (1939), conservative memoir by ex-Brain Truster online edition
* Powell, Jim FDR's Folly: How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression (2003) sharp attack from the right
* Shlaes, Amity. The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression (2007), 480pp, popular
* Sitkoff, Harvard. ed. Fifty Years Later: The New Deal Evaluated. (1984). A friendly liberal evaluation.