"France's New Deal" is an in-depth and important look at the
remaking of the French state after World War II, a time when the
nation was endowed with brand-new institutions for managing its
economy and culture. Yet, as Philip Nord reveals, the significant
process of state rebuilding did not begin at the Liberation.
Rather, it got started earlier, in the waning years of the Third
Republic and under the Vichy regime. Tracking the nation's
evolution from the 1930s through the postwar years, Nord describes
how a variety of political actors--socialists, Christian democrats,
technocrats, and Gaullists--had a hand in the construction of
modern France.
Nord examines the French development of economic planning and a
cradle-to-grave social security system; and he explores the
nationalization of radio, the creation of a national cinema, and
the funding of regional theaters. Nord shows that many of the
policymakers of the Liberation era had also served under the Vichy
regime, and that a number of postwar institutions and policies were
actually holdovers from the Vichy era--minus the authoritarianism
and racism of those years. From this perspective, the French state
after the war was neither entirely new nor purely social-democratic
in inspiration. The state's complex political pedigree appealed to
a range of constituencies and made possible the building of a wide
base of support that remained in place for decades to come.
A nuanced perspective on the French state's postwar origins,
"France's New Deal" chronicles how one modern nation came into
being.
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