Summary Of "The New Deal: The Conservative Results Of The Liberal Reforms" By Barton Bernstein - UNIVERSITY SUMMARIES - E-book - ePub

We have summarized the essential of this book by the author. In general, the New Deal has earned its approval thanks to laws such as the minimum wage, the construction of houses, the greater progressivity in taxes and social security. For most liberal historians, the New Deal meant the culmination of democracy, the liberation of the Federal Government from the clutches of big business, and the substantial redistribution of political power.
Breaking laissez faire, the new Roosevelt administration signaled the end of the impartial and passive state and the beginning of the effective rule of the interventionist government, which balances private concentrations of power, affirms rights, and responds to the needs of the underprivileged.