The Great Depression and the New Deal读书介绍

The New Deal shaped our nation's politics for decades, and was seen by many as tantamount to the "American Way" itself. Now, in this superb compact history, Eric Rauchway offers an informed account of the New Deal and the Great Depression, illuminating its successes and failures. Rauchway first describes how the roots of the Great Depression lay in America's post-war economic policies--described as "laissez-faire with a vengeance"--which in effect isolated our nation from the world economy just when the world needed the United States most. He shows how the magnitude of the resulting economic upheaval, and the ineffectiveness of the old ways of dealing with financial hardships, set the stage for Roosevelt's vigorous (and sometimes unconstitutional) Depression-fighting policies. Indeed, Rauchway stresses that the New Deal only makes sense as a response to this global economic disaster. The book examines a key sampling of New Deal programs, ranging from the National Recovery Agency and the Securities and Exchange Commission, to the Public Works Administration and Social Security, revealing why some worked and others did not. In the end, Rauchway concludes, it was the coming of World War II that finally generated the political will to spend the massive amounts of public money needed to put Americans back to work. And only the Cold War saw the full implementation of New Deal policies abroad--including the United Nations, the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund. Today we can look back at the New Deal and, for the first time, see its full complexity. Rauchway captures this whole in a remarkably short space, making this book an ideal introduction to one of the great policy revolutions in history.

埃里克•劳赫威 美国加州大学戴维斯分校历史学教授，近年来主要研究领域为罗斯福新政和第二次世界大战。另著有《赚大钱的人：罗斯福和凯恩斯如何终结大萧条、击败法西斯并实现繁荣的和平》（2015）、《诸国中的蒙福者：世界如何造就了美国》（2006）、《刺杀麦金利：西奥多•罗斯福的美国是如何形成的》（2003）、《亲情的庇护处：1900－1920年间的家庭与美国改革政治》（2001）等。

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