In a message dated 10/23/03 3:07:02 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >Check out almost any textbook: Thomas Bailey's is one obvious example. >Schlesinger *Age of Roosevelt* and Hofstader's *American Political >Tradition* are others.
Bailey's textbook is called The American Pageant and we used it in high school. You can also see the popular view of the New Deal saving America in Sydney Ratner's Taxation and Democracy in America. Schlesinger and Ratner belong to the Progressive school of American history; the New Left categorized Hofstader (sneeringly) as a Liberal Consensus historian, although in fact he fits better under the organizational variant of the modernization school of American history. New Left historians, incidentally, see the New Deal as a fascist band aid which prevented true "reform" (socialism) by hiding the inherent evils of market capitalism. They tend to hate FDR but like Hoover and Eisenhower, both of whom they see as thoughtful men who tried, albeit futilely, to fashion non-coercive solutions to the alleged inherent contradictions of market capitalism. David Levenstam
