| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.2

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Book Review

The New Deal and the Triumph of Liberalism. Ed. by Sidney M. Milkis and Jerome M. Mileur. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2002. vi, 338 pp. Cloth, $60.00, ISBN 1-55849-320-4. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 1-55849-321-2.)

A title alluding to "the triumph of liberalism" leads quickly these days to the conclusion that it deals with either parody or history. In this case it constitutes something of a celebration of the New Deal and its enduring legacy. The thrust is heavily political. The two editors are political scientists, and they alone account for a third of the text; they are joined by five fellow members of their discipline. Two of the four historian contributors provide brief essays. Beyond celebration, the basic theme lies in the political scientists' stress on the New Deal effort to move from partisanship to an "administrative state" (p. 73)—echoing the coeditor Sidney M. Milkis's 1993 book The President and the Parties: The Transformation of the American Party System since the New Deal.

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