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Utopian Movements and Ideas of the Great Depression - Dreamers, Believers, and Madmen (Hardcover)
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Utopian Movements and Ideas of the Great Depression - Dreamers, Believers, and Madmen (Hardcover)
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In the 1930s, the United States was beset with an economic crisis
so serious that it threatened the future of the nation. On the
national level, Franklin Roosevelt initiated and developed a
variety of reforms and experiments as part of the New Deal. Some
Americans looking for change believed Roosevelt was going in the
wrong direction, while others believed he was too timid in his
reforms. Still others thought he had not broken free of the
restraints placed on him by the financial interests of the country.
Many Americans had their own ideas about how to address the
financial crisis and took matters into their own hands. In Utopian
Movements and Ideas of the Great Depression, Donald W. Whisenhunt
explores several lesser-known movements for change and reform in
the Great Depression Era including communal societies, proposals
for reform, and analyses of several books that propose solutions to
the nation's economic ills. Arguably, America has been a Utopian
experiment from its beginning; the movements and ideas of the 1930s
were simply the latest manifestations of that experiment. Though
not well known, the people and events studied represent the
thinking of some of the most articulate and driven Americans during
the economic crisis. Despite their lack of obvious success, they
represent an important American idea-that an average person can
devise solutions to society's problems. These movements and ideas
embody the American belief in progress and the power of the
individual.
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