| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.2

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Book Review

Benjamin V. Cohen: Architect of the New Deal. By William Lasser. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002. xvi, 385 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-300-08879-5.)

William Lasser has the distinction of being Benjamin V. Cohen's only biographer. Perhaps appropriately so, for Cohen, whose contributions to shaping the New Deal were numerous, had what Louis Brownlow called, in the title of his autobiography, a "passion for anonymity." The shy and self-effacing Cohen left behind virtually no written legacy, thus confounding the biographer's task. As Lasser points out in the first chapter, "The record of his accomplishments must be built up from bits and pieces of fragmentary evidence, much of which has survived only by chance, and most of which is deeply encrusted in legend and mythology" (p. 5).

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