ISBN: 9780817916848 - the new deal and modern american conservatism: a defining rivalry (3 Ergebnisse)

Hardback. Zustand: Good. Providing an often-overlooked historical perspective, Gordon Lloyd and David Davenport show how the New Deal of the 1930s established the framework for today's U.S. domestic policy and the ongoing debate between progressives and conservatives. They examine the pivotal issues of the dispute, laying out the progressive-conservative arguments between Hoover and Roosevelt in the 1930s and illustrating how those issues remain current in public policy today. The authors detail how Hoover, alarmed by the excesses of the New Deal, pointed to the ideas that would constitute modern U.S. conservatism and how three pillars--liberty, limited government, and constitutionalism--formed his case against the New Deal and, in turn, became the underlying philosophy of conservatism today. Illustrating how the debates between Franklin Roosevelt and Herbert Hoover were conducted much like the campaign rhetoric of liberals and conservatives in 2012, Lloyd and Davenport assert that conservatives must, to be a viable part of the national conversation, go back to come back--because our history contains signposts for the way forward.…

hardcover. Zustand: Very Good.

Hardcover. Small 4to. Tan cloth with black spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. ix, 108pp. Fine/fine. A pristine first edition, handsomely inscribed and signed by a co-author in black fineline on front flyleaf: "To Bob Malott / With appreciation for / your leadership on behalf / of the legacy of Herbert Hoover, / which we trust will be / enhanced by this book. / David Davenport / September, 2013." Robert Malott (1926-2018) was a noted Chicago business leader, CEO of FMC Corporation, Hoover Institution chairman of the board, Republican politico and philanthropist.…