The New Deal And American Youth

Author : Richard A. Reiman
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780820336961

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The New Deal and American Youth by Richard A. Reiman Pdf

When President Franklin Roosevelt formed the National Youth Administration (NYA) in June 1935, he declared that it would address "the most pressing and immediate needs" of American young people. In this book Richard A. Reiman explores the various, and sometimes conflicting, ways in which the NYA planners and administrators defined those needs and attempted to answer them. As Reiman notes, the NYA was established to assist the millions of youth who, during the Depression years, were out of school, out of work, and ineligible for the New Deal's own Civilian Conservation Corps. Contrary to popular belief, he argues, New Dealers did not envision the NYA primarily as a "junior WPA," a trigger for civil rights reform, or a springboard for the careers of liberal administrators. Rather, its designers saw it as a reform agency that would advance and protect democracy by countering totalitarian appeals to young people and by equalizing educational opportunities for rich and poor. Woven into the successive drafts establishing the NYA, these twin purposes united the programs of planners as disparate as Aubrey W. Williams, Mary McLeod Bethune, John Studebaker, Eleanor Roosevelt, Charles Taussig, and FDR himself. Like their separate agendas, Reiman shows, the planners' shared concerns for democratic values were the products of thinking that had arisen during the Progressive Era - a time when an awareness of the social effects of child development first occurred. During the 1930s, fears of fascism and totalitarianism added fuel to these concerns and shaped much of the nature of the NYA's prewar appeal. Based on a wide range of sources, including NYA-related documents at the National Archives and at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, The New Deal and American Youth is the first full-length study of this important agency. By showing how the NYA served as an instrument for realizing so many New Deal ambitions, it offers rich insights into both the NYA and the New Deal.

Author : Richard A. Reiman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0820314072

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The New Deal & American Youth by Richard A. Reiman Pdf

When President Franklin Roosevelt formed the National Youth Administration (NYA) in June 1935, he declared that it would address "the most pressing and immediate needs" of American young people. In this book Richard A. Reiman explores the various, and sometimes conflicting, ways in which the NYA planners and administrators defined those needs and attempted to answer them. As Reiman notes, the NYA was established to assist the millions of youth who, during the Depression years, were out of school, out of work, and ineligible for the New Deal's own Civilian Conservation Corps. Contrary to popular belief, he argues, New Dealers did not envision the NYA primarily as a "junior WPA", a trigger for civil rights reform, or a springboard for the careers of liberal administrators. Rather, its designers saw it as a reform agency that would advance and protect democracy by countering totalitarian appeals to young people and by equalizing educational opportunities for rich and poor. Woven into the successive drafts establishing the NYA, these twin purposes united the programs of planners as disparate as Aubrey W. Williams, Mary McLeod Bethune, John Studebaker, Eleanor Roosevelt, Charles Taussig, and FDR himself. Like their separate agendas, Reiman shows, the planners' shared concerns for democratic values were the products of thinking that had arisen during the Progressive Era - a time when an awareness of the social effects of child development first occurred. During the 1930s, fears of fascism and totalitarianism added fuel to these concerns and shaped much of the nature of the NYA's prewar appeal. Based on a wide range of sources, including NYA-related documents at the National Archives and atthe Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, The New Deal and American Youth is the first full-length study of this important agency. By showing how the NYA served as an instrument for realizing so many New Deal ambitions, it offers rich insights into both the NYA and the New Deal.

Author : Stephanie Fitzgerald
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2006-07
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0756520967

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The New Deal by Stephanie Fitzgerald Pdf

Discusses America on the brink of economic disaster and how Franklin Roosevelt promised a new deal for America.

Author : George P. Rawick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 850 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : American Youth Congress
ISBN : STANFORD:36105036079213

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The New Deal and Youth by George P. Rawick Pdf

Author : Michael Hiltzik
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781439154489

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The New Deal by Michael Hiltzik Pdf

From first to last the New Deal was a work in progress, a patchwork of often contradictory ideas.

Author : Paula S. Fass
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Education and state
ISBN : STANFORD:36105009076162

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The New Deal by Paula S. Fass Pdf

Author : Britt Haas
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780823278008

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Fighting Authoritarianism by Britt Haas Pdf

“This engaging study of progressive youth organizations charts their origins, their quest to fashion an America true to its ideals, and their demise.” —Phillip Deery, Victoria University, Melbourne During the Great Depression, young radicals in New York developed a vision of and for America, molded by their understanding of the Great War and global economic collapse as well as other events unfolding both at home and abroad. They worked to make their vision of a free, equal, democratic society based on peaceful coexistence a reality. Their attempts were ultimately unsuccessful—but their voices were heard on a number of issues, including free speech, racial justice, and peace. A major contribution to the historiography of the era, Fighting Authoritarianism provides an important new examination of US youth activism of the 1930s, including the limits of the New Deal and how youth activists pushed FDR, Eleanor Roosevelt, and other New Dealers to do more to address economic distress and social inequality, and promote more inclusionary politics. Britt Haas questions the interventionist-versus-isolationist paradigm, and also explores the era not as a precursor to WWII, but as a moment of hope about institutionalizing progress in freedom, equality, and democracy. Fighting Authoritarianism corrects misconceptions about these activists’ vision, heavily influenced by the American Dream they’d been brought up to revere. For them, that meant embracing radical ideologies, especially the socialism and communism widely discussed, debated, and promoted on the city’s college campuses. They didn’t believe they were turning their backs on American values—instead, they thought such ideologies were the only way to make America live up to its promises. This study also outlines the careers of Molly Yard, Joseph Lash, and James Wechsler, how they retracted—and for Yard and Lash, reclaimed—their radical past, and how New York continued to hold a prominent platform in their careers. (Lash and Wechsler worked for the New York Post, the latter as editor until 1980.) Examining the decade from this perspective highlights the promise of America as young people understood it: a historic moment when anything seemed possible.

Author : Alan Lawson
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2006-07-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780801888724

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A Commonwealth of Hope by Alan Lawson Pdf

Was the New Deal an aberration in American history? This look at its origins and legacy is “truly refreshing . . . the author makes a good case for his ideas” (Journal of Economic History). Did the New Deal represent the true American way or was it an aberration that would last only until the old order could reassert itself? This original and thoughtful study tells the story of the New Deal, explains its origins, and assesses its legacy. Alan Lawson explores how the circumstances of the Great Depression and the distinctive leadership of Franklin D. Roosevelt combined to bring about unprecedented economic and policy reform. Challenging conventional wisdom, he argues that the New Deal was not an improvised response to an unexpected crisis, but the realization of a unique opportunity to put into practice Roosevelt’s long-developed progressive thought. Lawson focuses on where the impetus and plans for the New Deal originated, how Roosevelt and those closest to him sought to fashion a cooperative commonwealth, and what happened when the impulse for collective unity was thwarted. He describes the impact of the Great Depression on the prevailing system and traces the fortunes of several major social sectors as the drive to create a cohesive plan for reconstruction unfolded. He continues the story of these main sectors through the last half of the 1930s and traces their legacy down to the present as crucial challenges to the New Deal have arisen. Drawing from a wide variety of scholarly texts, records of the Roosevelt administration, Depression-era newspapers and periodicals, and biographies and reflections of the New Dealers, Lawson offers a comprehensive conceptual base for a crucial aspect of American history.

Author : United States. Dept. of Labor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1933
Category : Labor camps
ISBN : UOM:39015036666983

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Emergency Conservation Work by United States. Dept. of Labor Pdf

Author : Burton W. Folsom
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2009-11-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781416592372

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New Deal Or Raw Deal? by Burton W. Folsom Pdf

ultimately elevating public opinion of his administration but falling flat in achieving the economic revitalization that America so desperately needed from the Great Depression. Folsom takes a critical, revisionist look at Roosevelt's presidency, his economic policies, and his personal life. Elected in 1932 on a buoyant tide of promises to balance the increasingly uncontrollable national budget and reduce the catastrophic unemployment rate, the charismatic thirty-second president not only neglected to pursue those goals, he made dramatic changes to federal programming that directly contradicted his campaign promises. Price fixing, court packing, regressive taxes, and patronism were all hidden inside the alphabet soup of his popular New Deal, putting a financial strain on the already suffering lower classes and discouraging the upper classes from taking business risks that potentially could have jostled national cash flow from dormancy.

Author : Robert Cohen,Eleanor Roosevelt
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0807854131

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Dear Mrs. Roosevelt by Robert Cohen,Eleanor Roosevelt Pdf

Presents children's letters to Eleanor Roosevelt written during the Great Depression, in a collection of correspondence that reveals the First Lady as a source of inspiration in a time of dire economic crisis.

Author : Kriste Lindenmeyer
Publisher : American Childhoods
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123329802

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The Greatest Generation Grows Up by Kriste Lindenmeyer Pdf

Kriste Lindenmeyer shows that the experiences of depression-era children help us understand the course of the 1930s as well as the history of American childhood. For the first time, she notes, federal policy extended childhood dependence through the teen years while cultural changes reinforced this ideal of modern childhood. In all, the thirties experience worked to confer greater identity on American children, and Ms. Lindenmeyer's story provides essential background for understanding the legacy of those men and women whom Tom Brokaw has called "America's greatest generation."

Author : Conrad Black
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 1328 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781610392136

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt by Conrad Black Pdf

Franklin Delano Roosevelt stands astride American history like a colossus, having pulled the nation out of the Great Depression and led it to victory in the Second World War. Elected to four terms as president, he transformed an inward-looking country into the greatest superpower the world had ever known. Only Abraham Lincoln did more to save America from destruction. But FDR is such a large figure that historians tend to take him as part of the landscape, focusing on smaller aspects of his achievements or carping about where he ought to have done things differently. Few have tried to assess the totality of FDR's life and career. Conrad Black rises to the challenge. In this magisterial biography, Black makes the case that FDR was the most important person of the twentieth century, transforming his nation and the world through his unparalleled skill as a domestic politician, war leader, strategist, and global visionary--all of which he accomplished despite a physical infirmity that could easily have ended his public life at age thirty-nine. Black also takes on the great critics of FDR, especially those who accuse him of betraying the West at Yalta. Black opens a new chapter in our understanding of this great man, whose example is even more inspiring as a new generation embarks on its own rendezvous with destiny.

Author : Tonya Bolden
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780375852145

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FDR's Alphabet Soup by Tonya Bolden Pdf

Examines Franklin Roosevelt's first 100 days in office and his unveiling of his New Deal to combat the Great Depression.

Author : Jennifer Lee,Min Zhou
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0415946697

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Asian American Youth by Jennifer Lee,Min Zhou Pdf

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.