Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time - Ira Katznelson

Written by Ira Katznelson
Read by Scott Brick
Format: MP3
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Redefining our traditional understanding of the New Deal, this book examines this pivotal American era through an international lens that juxtaposes a struggling democracy with enticing ideologies like Fascism & Communism.
Post-WW1 American democracy was rescued yet distorted by a unified band of southern lawmakers who safeguarded racial segregation as they built a new national state to manage capitalism & assert global power.
This original study brings to vivid life the politicians and pundits of the time, including Walter Lippmann, who argued that America needed a dose of dictatorship; Mississippi’s five-foot-two Senator Theodore Bilbo, who advocated the legal separation of races; and Robert Oppenheimer, who built the atomic bomb yet was tragically undone by the nation’s hysteria.

Unabridged Length: 22 hours and 36 minutes

First published in 2013.

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