Kimberly Phillips-Fein

Apr 8, 2015

Invisible Hands

The Businessmen's Crusade Against the New Deal

W. W. Norton 2010

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Today we'll focus on the history of resistance to the New Deal. In her book Invisible Hands: The Businessmen's Crusade Against the New Deal (W. W. Norton,2010), Kimberly Phillips-Fein details how many of the most prominent elites had their ideas and practices shaped by groups that were part of organized resistance to the New Deal. She argues that this history helps revise common understandings of the rise of conservatism in the 1970s and after.

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