| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.4

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Book Review

Amerikanische Träume: Die Kultur der Vereinigten Staaten in der Zeit des New Deal (American dreams: The culture of the United States in the time of the New Deal). By Richard Nate. (Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2003. 300 pp. Paper, €37.20, ISBN 3-8260-2497-4.) In German.

There have been a good many authors who have sought to show the extraordinary ways in which the New Deal transformed American government and political culture. Among recent authors who share this view is Richard Nate, who argues that the New Deal represented a major shift in American institutional arrangements. Others, though, might argue that it was not a radical departure at all, but embodied the spirit of the Progressive Era. In order to shore up his argument that such a transformation did indeed take place, Nate engages in part 1 in a broad discussion of the political history of the New Deal and its antecedents. Of interest in his discussion is the notion that, while there was a preoccupation with the national past, there was at the same time an emergent vision of the future.

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