5. The New Deal and American Society
POWERPOINT PRESENTATION
FULL BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. What were the major sources of opposition to the New Deal?
2. What did the New Deal achieve?

Required Reading
David M. Kennedy, "What the New Deal Did," chapter 12 of Freedom from Fear

Further Reading
Patricia Sullivan, Days of Hope: Race and Democracy in the New Deal Era (1996)
Anthony J. Badger, "Conclusion" to The New Deal
Alan Brinkley, The End of Reform (1995)
Alan Brinkley, "The New Deal and the Idea of the State", in Steve Fraser and Gary Gerstle eds, The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order (1989)
Jerold S. Auerbach, "New Deal, Old Deal, or Raw Deal: Some Thoughts on New Left Historiography", Journal of Southern History35 (1969), pp. 18-30

Primary Documents
Huey Long's "Share Our Wealth" speech, 1935
Workers' Letters to Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins
Letter to President Roosevelt from Mr Griefer, of Spring Valley, N. Y., 1938