Taming the Street - The Old Guard, the New Deal and FDR's Fight to Regulate American Capitalism [1 ed.] 9780593132654, 9780593132647

Taming the Street describes how President Franklin D. Roosevelt battled to regulate Wall Street in the wake of the 1929

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Taming the Street - The Old Guard, the New Deal and FDR's Fight to Regulate American Capitalism [1 ed.]
9780593132654, 9780593132647

Virtually all enterprises are regulated. Regulation is crucial not only to economic success but also to protecting consu

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The American Red Cross is an iconic institution whose long history includes both controversy and achievement. In dark sk

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For two generations historians have debated the significance of the New Deal, arguing about what it tried and tried not

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Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal began as a program of short-term emergency relief measures and evolved into a truly transf

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This book is a revised and expanded edition of the EPlus ebook with the same name.

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Chiles sets the record straight in The Revolution of ’28 by paying close attention to how Smith identified and activated

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An important part of the New Deal, the Modernization Credit Plan helped transform urban business districts and small-tow

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From the perspective of young lawyers in three key New Deal agencies, this book traces the path of crucial constitutiona

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Argues that the writers of the 30s and 40s--Hemingway, Ayn Rand, John Dos Passos, Gertrude Stein, Richard Wright, Wallac

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