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Article: The Retreat from Liberalism: Collectivists versus Progressives in the New Deal Years.(Book Review)
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- September 22, 2004
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The Retreat from Liberalism: Collectivists versus Progressives in the New Deal Years. By Gary Dean Best. (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2002. Pp. xiii, 174. $64.95.)
One could either see the contents of this book as an ambitious treatise identifying and describing those who were most influential in creating and developing the New Deal or as a stinging criticism of the New Deal, Franklin Roosevelt, and other New Deal scholars. The individuals Gary Dean Best considers most important to the establishment of the New Deal included "planners" Rexford Tugwell, Raymond Moley, and Adolf Berle; journalists Bruce Bliven and Felix Morely; Supreme Court Justices Louis Brandeis and ...