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by Bernard Sternsher. 540 pgs.

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Contributors:

   Bernard Sternsher

Publisher:

   Rutgers University Press

Place of Publication:

  New Brunswick, NJ  

Publication Year:

  1964
Subjects:   New Deal, 1933-1939, Tugwell, Rexford G--(Rexford Guy),--1891-, United States--Politics And Government--1933-1945
Table of contents
Contents
Preface vii
Tugwell: A Chronology xii
Part I:Before the New Deal
1. A Biographical Sketch: 1891-1931 3
2. Tugwell's Institutionalism and the Coming of the Depression 11
3. Mr. Hoover's Economic Policy: 1928-1932 26
Part II:Tugwell the Brain Truster
4. Brain Trust--Campaign--Election: 1932 39
5. Nationalism versus Internationalism 51
6. Roosevelt versus Hoover: The Lame-Duck Interlude 59
7. Tugwell versus Hoover: The Twenty-Five-Year Debate 73
8. Officialdom and the End of the Brain Trust: 1932-1933 86
Part III:Tugwell's Thought and the New Deal
9. Tugwell's Institutionalism and Economic Planning 91
10. The Ideological Split in the New Deal 109
11. The Two New Deals: 1933-1938 122
Part IV:Professor on the Potomac
12. Intellectual Approaches to Crisis 143
13. The National Industrial Recovery Act and the NRA: 1933-1935 154
14. Proposals for Farm Relief: 1922-1933 170
15. The Agricultural Adjustment Act: 1932-1933 183
16. Tugwell versus Peek and the Purge in the AAA: 1933-1935 194
17. The Department of Agriculture--Conservation: 1933-1936 208
18. Tugwell as Whipping Boy: The Attack 223
19. Tugwell as Whipping Boy: The Impact of the Attack 238
20. Promotion: 1934 251
21. The Task of the Resettlement Administration 262
22. The Performance of the Resettlement Administration under Tugwell: 1935-1936 279
23. Board Member--Errand Boy--Publicist--Idea Man: 1932-1936 307
24. Resignation: 1936 321
Part V:An American's Challenge to America
25. Tugwell the "Subversive" 337
26. Tugwell and Communism 357
27. Tugwell and the American Tradition: Evolution--Democracy-- the Constitution 370
28. Tugwell's Thought and America Today 396
The Works and Papers of Rexford Guy Tugwell 413
Notes 425
Index 499
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