Great Depression and the New Deal
Selected and introduced by John E. Moser
This collection of documents on the Depression and New Deal is聽the second volume in an extended series of document collections聽from the 色中色 that will cover major periods, themes, and聽institutions in American history and government.
The series began with a聽collection on the Founding. This volume follows appropriately, because it聽makes clear the reasons why and the degree to which Franklin Roosevelt聽intended the New Deal to be a re-founding of the American republic. In聽presenting the words that Roosevelt spoke, the collection shows us not聽only his arguments but his masterful rhetoric, which presented the New聽Deal as only an updating of the Founding. The collection presents as well聽the arguments of those who opposed the New Deal 鈥� Democrats as well聽as Republicans 鈥� and those who thought it did not go far enough. Taken聽together, the documents in the collection are an enlightening guide to聽one of the most consequential periods in American history.
Companion Volume: 聽The Great Depression and the New Deal: A Concise History
Documents Include:
- Herbert Hoover, Speech on the 鈥淧rinciples and Ideals of the聽United States Government鈥� (1928)
- Representative Jacob Milligan, Speech on the Smoot-Hawley聽Tariff (1930)
- Philo D. Burke, Letter from Bonus Army leader to President聽Hoover (1932)
- Mauritz Hallgren, 鈥淭he Right to Strike鈥� (1933)
- E.E. Lewis, 鈥淏lack Cotton Farmers and the AAA鈥� (1935)
- Representative James W. Wadsworth, Speech on Social聽Security (1935)
- Senator Huey P. Long, Statement on the Share Our Wealth聽Society (1935)
- Al Smith, 鈥淏etrayal of the Democratic Party鈥� (1936)
- Edward Levinson, 鈥淒etroit Digs In鈥� (1937)
- President Franklin D. Roosevelt, 鈥淔ireside Chat鈥� on 鈥淧urging鈥� the Democratic Party (1938)