New Deal or Raw Deal: How FDR's Economic Legacy Has Damaged America

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New Deal or Raw Deal: How FDR's Economic Legacy Has Damaged America

Author: Burton W. Folsom Jr.
Publisher: Threshold Editions
Copyright: 2008
Pages: 336
Cover Price: $ 27.00

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A sharply critical new look at Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency reveals government policies known as the New Deal that hindered economic recovery from the Great Depression---and that are still hurting America today.

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Background Information

Franklin D. Roosevelt overcame polio to become president during the Great Depression and World War II. Franklin D. Roosevelt declared that he would deliver a New Deal, which became the name for his anti-Depression programs. Before the Great Depression, no accurate records of unemployment were kept, but the high levels of those years were probably unprecedented.