NEW DEAL LEFTISTS, HENRY WALLACE AND GIDEON\u27S ARMY, AND THE PROGRESSIVE PARTY IN MONTANA, 1937-1952

Many forces occupied America\u27s sociopolitical terrain to the left of New Dealers who dominated U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt\u27s administration of the 1930s. Some fastened themselves temporarily to the New Dealers\u27 coattails. Ideologically motivated, others touted their special panaceas for ending the Great Depression that had begun in 1929, and certain of the mainstream Democratic Party\u27s expatriates added to this cacophony by pursuing their own agendas. Comprised principally of the Democratic Party\u27s out-of-power people, another group wanted to restore Roosevelt\u27s reforming to its 1933-34 height, change the federal government\u27s thrust to the leftward in. certain particulars, and impose New Dealstyle reform programs in states where the Democratic Party\u27s conservative wing had gained the upper hand