Just a backup in advance of the detumblring
Last week (although it was more than a week ago), the online book club of my new book (available to the reading public here and here) discussed the most controversial chapter of the book, which argues that the New Deal ended the Great Depression. This week, I’ll be discussing how direct job creation was suddenly abandoned during the debate …
People Must Live By Work Book Club: Week 5 (Chapter 4) – Lawyers, Guns & Money
Last week, the online book club of my new book (available to the reading public here and here) discussed how the Works Progress Administration triumphed over the Public Works Administration’s traditional public works strategy in a battle of the acronyms. (Incidentally, I’m throwing a book party next Friday.) This week, I’ll examine the track record of the WPA …
People Must Live By Work Book Club: Week 4 (Chapter 3) – Lawyers, Guns & Money
Last week the online book club of my new book (available to the reading public here and here), discussed how direct job creation programs built a place for themselves within the New Deal’s vision of a social security system, even if that place was through a different bill than the Social Security Act. This week, I’m going to …
People Must Live By Work Book Club: Week 3 (Chapter 2) – Lawyers, Guns & Money
Last week, the online book club of my new book (available to the reading public here and here) began with a discussion of the origins of direct job creation policy, the scholarly and political reasons why I took on this project, and the necessity of academics engaging in a struggle for the historical memory of the public. This …
People Must Live By Work Book Club: Week 2 (Chapter 1) – Lawyers, Guns & Money
As I announced last week, my first academic book has officially been published (available to the reading public here and here) and to celebrate, I’m running an online book club where we’ll discuss the book a chapter-per-week. This week, we’ll be discussing the Introduction, which goes all the way from the social policies of Thomas Cromwell to the …
People Must Live By Work Book Club: Week 1 (Introduction) – Lawyers, Guns & Money
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