Nancy Beck Young
Auteur van Lou Henry Hoover: Activist First Lady (Modern First Ladies)
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A Dallas area native, Nancy Beck Young is an assistant professor history at McKendree College in Lebanon, Illinois. She specializes in twentieth-century American political history and the history of American women. Coauthor of Texas, Her Texas: The Life and Times of Frances Goff, she is currently toon meer working on a new book, Forgotten Feminist: Lou Henry Hoover as First Lady, under contract to the University press of Kansas. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
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Yet as Young reveals, this was not done in a vacuum. Overshadowing Congress’s efforts was the still-fresh transformation that the New Deal had wrought in the country. Many conservatives sought to use the exigencies of war to roll back many of the New Deal programs. Here they were aided by the pent-up frustration many members of Congress, Republican and Democrat, felt towards what they viewed as the high-handed treatment of Congress by Roosevelt, and the desire to reassert some independence – an effort that was more viable in domestic policy than in matters related to the war. Young sees the moderates in Congress as the key to the success of these efforts, with liberals forced to curtail domestic reforms as the price for preserving the New Deal legacy.
Young recounts all of this in a text that draws upon a wealth of archival documentation, contemporary publications, and secondary-source literature to support her analysis. With it, she illuminates the personalities that often drove policy, showing how individual ideologies and attitudes could be critical to determining events. All together it makes for a valuable study of the wartime Congress, one that is useful reading both for students of the period and for anyone interested in American politics and the shape of our nation today.
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