Gary Gerstle, Nelson Lichtenstein, and Alice O’Connor (eds), Beyond the New Deal Order: U.S. Politics from the Great Depression to the Great Recession

This book is the successor to The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order, 1930-1980 (Fraser and Gerstle, 1989). The editors describe the earlier book as having introduced the concept of “a political, socioeconomic order” as a way of thinking about American history, its concern being with the order that began with Franklin Roosevelt’s election as President in 1932 and ended with the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980 (1). Written during the 1980s, when the future political orientation of the Unite..