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Reviewed by John F. Bauman | Book Review | The Indiana Magazine of History, 104.2 | The History Cooperative
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June, 2008
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REVIEWS

A Commonwealth of Hope
The New Deal Response to Crisis

By Alan Lawson
(Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. Pp. xv, 280. Essay on sources, index. Clothbound, $45.00; paperbound, $19.95.)

Like many of the other one-volume syntheses of the New Deal, Alan Law-son's Commonwealth of Hope focuses on the potpourri of reformist ideas driving 1930s liberalism. However, rather than cataloging these ideas, and branding the New Deal an experimental goulash, Lawson identifies a singular undergirding theme, the "Cooperative Commonwealth." It is effective. 1
      Briefly noting the European and early American roots of the term, Lawson sees the vision of a cooperative commonwealth among late nineteenth-century reformers (Edward Bellamy for example) who saw hope in the way the nation's activities and institutions were coalescing into larger units. Historian Robert Wiebe observed the same tendency among professionals, doctors, businessmen, lawyers, and other middle-class Americans engaged in "The Search for Order." . . .
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