Berkeley And The New Deal

Author : Harvey L. Smith
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9781467132398

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Berkeley and the New Deal by Harvey L. Smith Pdf

Berkeley's 1930s and early 1940s New Deal structures and projects left a lasting legacy of utilitarian and beautiful infrastructure. These public buildings, schools, parks, and artworks helped shape the city and thus the lives of its residents; it is hard to imagine Berkeley without them. The artists and architects of these projects mention several themes: working for the community, responsibility, the importance of government support, collaboration, and creating a cultural renaissance. These New Deal projects, however, can be called "hidden history" because their legacies have been mostly ignored and forgotten. Comprehending the impact of the New Deal on one American city is only possible when viewed as a whole. Berkeley might have gotten a little more or a little less New Deal funding than other towns, but this time it wasn't "Bezerkeley" but very much typical and mainstream. More than history, this book shows the period's relevance to today's social, political, and economic realities. The times may again call for comprehensive public policy that reaches Main Street.

Author : Harvey L. Smith
Publisher : Arcadia Library Editions
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-13
Category : History
ISBN : 1531676960

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Berkeley and the New Deal by Harvey L. Smith Pdf

Berkeley's 1930s and early 1940s New Deal structures and projects left a lasting legacy of utilitarian and beautiful infrastructure. These public buildings, schools, parks, and artworks helped shape the city and thus the lives of its residents; it is hard to imagine Berkeley without them. The artists and architects of these projects mention several themes: working for the community, responsibility, the importance of government support, collaboration, and creating a cultural renaissance. These New Deal projects, however, can be called "hidden history" because their legacies have been mostly ignored and forgotten. Comprehending the impact of the New Deal on one American city is only possible when viewed as a whole. Berkeley might have gotten a little more or a little less New Deal funding than other towns, but this time it wasn't "Bezerkeley" but very much typical and mainstream. More than history, this book shows the period's relevance to today's social, political, and economic realities. The times may again call for comprehensive public policy that reaches Main Street.

Author : John Belton
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0813522285

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Movies and Mass Culture by John Belton Pdf

On how American identity is shaped by motion pictures

Author : Jason Scott Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:C3448203

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Building New Deal Liberalism by Jason Scott Smith Pdf

Author : Nelson A. Pichardo Almanzar,Brian W. Kulik
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780739179277

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American Fascism and the New Deal by Nelson A. Pichardo Almanzar,Brian W. Kulik Pdf

Social movement theory identifies factors that can predict the success or failure of social movements; however, they have left out the influence of corporate elites. American Fascism and the New Deal makes a strong case for factoring in the strength of relevant corporate elite power in the prediction of social movements.

Author : Michael A. McCarthy
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781501708190

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Dismantling Solidarity by Michael A. McCarthy Pdf

Why has old-age security become less solidaristic and increasingly tied to risky capitalist markets? Drawing on rich archival data that covers more than fifty years of American history, Michael A. McCarthy argues that the critical driver was policymakers' reactions to capitalist crises and their political imperative to promote capitalist growth.Pension development has followed three paths of marketization in America since the New Deal, each distinct but converging: occupational pension plans were adopted as an alternative to real increases in Social Security benefits after World War II, private pension assets were then financialized and invested into the stock market, and, since the 1970s, traditional pension plans have come to be replaced with riskier 401(k) retirement plans. Comparing each episode of change, Dismantling Solidarity mounts a forceful challenge to common understandings of America’s private pension system and offers an alternative political economy of the welfare state. McCarthy weaves together a theoretical framework that helps to explain pension marketization with structural mechanisms that push policymakers to intervene to promote capitalist growth and avoid capitalist crises and contingent historical factors that both drive them to intervene in the particular ways they do and shape how their interventions bear on welfare change. By emphasizing the capitalist context in which policymaking occurs, McCarthy turns our attention to the structural factors that drive policy change. Dismantling Solidarity is both theoretically and historically detailed and superbly argued, urging the reader to reconsider how capitalism itself constrains policymaking. It will be of interest to sociologists, political scientists, historians, and those curious about the relationship between capitalism and democracy.

Author : Michael Duchemin
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806156705

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New Deal Cowboy by Michael Duchemin Pdf

Best known to Americans as the “singing cowboy,” beloved entertainer Gene Autry (1907–1998) appeared in countless films, radio broadcasts, television shows, and other venues. While Autry’s name and a few of his hit songs are still widely known today, his commitment to political causes and public diplomacy deserves greater appreciation. In this innovative examination of Autry’s influence on public opinion, Michael Duchemin explores the various platforms this cowboy crooner used to support important causes, notably Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal and foreign policy initiatives leading up to World War II. As a prolific performer of western folk songs and country-western music, Autry gained popularity in the 1930s by developing a persona that appealed to rural, small-town, and newly urban fans. It was during this same time, Duchemin explains, that Autry threw his support behind the thirty-second president of the United States. Drawing on a wealth of primary sources, Duchemin demonstrates how Autry popularized Roosevelt’s New Deal policies and made them more attractive to the American public. In turn, the president used the emerging motion picture industry as an instrument of public diplomacy to enhance his policy agendas, which Autry’s films, backed by Republic Pictures, unabashedly endorsed. As the United States inched toward entry into World War II, the president’s focus shifted toward foreign policy. Autry responded by promoting Americanism, war preparedness, and friendly relations with Latin America. As a result, Duchemin argues, “Sergeant Gene Autry” played a unique role in making FDR’s internationalist policies more palatable for American citizens reluctant to engage in another foreign war. New Deal Cowboy enhances our understanding of Gene Autry as a western folk hero who, during critical times of economic recovery and international crisis, readily assumed the role of public diplomat, skillfully using his talents to persuade a marginalized populace to embrace a nationalist agenda. By drawing connections between western popular culture and American political history, the book also offers valuable insight concerning the development of leisure and western tourism, the information industry, public diplomacy, and foreign policy in twentieth-century America.

Author : Michael Szalay
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2000-12-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0822325624

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New Deal Modernism by Michael Szalay Pdf

DIVArgues that the writers of the 30s and 40s--Hemingway, Ayn Rand, John Dos Passos, Gertrude Stein, Richard Wright, Wallace Stevens et al. -- identified and understood the formal problems of literary modernism through an idea of the social and an idiom of s/div

Author : Jason Scott Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521877213

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A Concise History of the New Deal by Jason Scott Smith Pdf

This book provides a history of the New Deal, exploring the institutional, political, and cultural changes experienced by the United States during the Great Depression.

Author : Eric Rauchway
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300252002

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Why the New Deal Matters by Eric Rauchway Pdf

A look at how the New Deal fundamentally changed American life, and why it remains relevant today" The New Deal was America's response to the gravest economic and social crisis of the twentieth century. It now serves as a source of inspiration for how we should respond to the gravest crisis of the twenty-first. There's no more fluent and informative a guide to that history than Eric Rauchway, and no one better to describe the capacity of government to transform America for the better."--Barry Eichengreen, University of California, Berkeley The greatest peaceable expression of common purpose in U.S. history, the New Deal altered Americans' relationship with politics, economics, and one another in ways that continue to resonate today. No matter where you look in America, there is likely a building or bridge built through New Deal initiatives. If you have taken out a small business loan from the federal government or drawn unemployment, you can thank the New Deal. While certainly flawed in many aspects--the New Deal was implemented by a Democratic Party still beholden to the segregationist South for its majorities in Congress and the Electoral College--the New Deal was instated at a time of mass unemployment and the rise of fascistic government models and functioned as a bulwark of American democracy in hard times. This book looks at how this legacy, both for good and ill, informs the current debates around governmental responses to crises.

Author : Karen M. Tani
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107076846

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States of Dependency by Karen M. Tani Pdf

This book recounts the transformation of American poor relief in the decades spanning the New Deal and the War on Poverty.

Author : Michael Grunwald
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781451642322

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The New New Deal by Michael Grunwald Pdf

A riveting story about change in the Obama era--and an essential handbook forvoters who want the truth about the president, his record, and his enemies by"TIME" senior correspondent Grunwald.

Author : Charles M. Wollenberg
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2008-01-23
Category : History
ISBN : 0520934253

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Berkeley by Charles M. Wollenberg Pdf

The Railroad Age, The Depression, World War II, The Atomic Age, The Sixties—these periods shaped and were in turn shaped by Berkeley, California—a city that has had a remarkable influence given its modest size. This concise book, the only up-to-date history of Berkeley, is a rich chronicle connecting the people, trends, and events that made the city to much larger themes in history. From the native builders of shellmounds to the blue-collar residents of Ocean View, the rise of the University of California, the World War II shipyards, and today's demographics and politics, it's all here in this fascinating account of the other beloved city by the bay. Along the way, we find the answers to many intriguing questions: Why is Adeline Street is so oddly aligned? How did Berkeley benefit from the 1906 earthquake that destroyed much of San Francisco? What differentiated Holy Hill from Nut Hill? Berkeley: A City in History offers a delightful sense of place to anyone who has lived in, worked in, or traveled through this unique city.

Author : Robert Kuttner
Publisher : The New Press
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781620977286

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Going Big by Robert Kuttner Pdf

With history and the extraordinary parallels between Biden and FDR as his guide, the veteran political analyst diagnoses what’s at stake for America in 2022 and beyond Joe Biden has found his way back to Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal. After four decades of diminishing prospects for ordinary people, the public likes what Biden is offering. Yet American democracy is in dire peril as Republicans, increasingly the national minority, try to destroy democracy in order to cling to power. It is the best of times and the worst of times. In Going Big, bestselling author and political journalist Robert Kuttner assesses the promise and peril of this critical juncture. Biden, like FDR in his time, faces multiple challenges. Roosevelt had to make terrible compromises with racist legislators to win enactment of his program. Biden, to achieve the necessary governing coalition, needs to achieve durable multiracial coalitions. Roosevelt had to conquer fascism in Europe; Biden must defeat it at home. And after four decades of neoliberal policy disasters reflecting Wall Street’s political influence, Biden needs to go beyond what even FDR achieved, to restore a democratic economy of broad possibility. From a writer with an unparalleled understanding of the history and politics that have made this moment possible, this book is the essential guide to what is at stake for Joe Biden, for America, and for our democracy.

Author : Robert E. Johnson,Janet L. Byron
Publisher : Roaring Forties Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781938901775

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Berkeley Walks by Robert E. Johnson,Janet L. Byron Pdf

This expanded and updated edition of a local best-seller offers more revealing rambles through one of America’s most fascinating cities. Berkeley Walks celebrates the things that make Berkeley such a wonderful walking city—diverse architecture, panoramic views, tree-lined neighborhoods, unusual gardens, secret pathways, hidden parks, and vibrant street life. Historical surprises and architectural delights include the apartment building from which Patty Hearst was kidnapped; Ted Kaczynski’s home before he became the Unabomber; and the residences of Nobel laureates and literary Berkeleyans such as Thornton Wilder, Ann Rice, and Philip K. Dick. Bob Johnson and Janet Byron—longtime city residents and tour guides—have added 3 new walks, extensively revised 6 others, and updated all the rest. These 21 walks showcase the many elements that make Berkeley’s neighborhoods, shopping districts, and academic areas such fun to explore. Visitors will discover a vibrant community beyond the University of California campus borders; locals will be surprised and charmed by the treasures in their own backyards. Highlights of the book include features on architects such as John Galen Howard, Bernard Maybeck, and Julia Morgan; more than 100 archival and original photos; and detailed maps with hundreds of points of interest on these easy-to-follow, self-guided walking tours.