| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.1

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Book Review

Modern Republican: Arthur Larson and the Eisenhower Years. By David L. Stebenne. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006. xvi, 363 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-253-34807-4.)
Part biography, part political analysis, and buoyed by an exhaustive range of primary sources, David L. Stebenne's Modern Republican documents how an obscure professor of law, Arthur Larson, became President Dwight D. Eisenhower's alter ego, the man who publicly made the case for "Modern Republicanism" during the 1950s.	1
An excellent analysis of Larson's formative influences, this book shows how Larson adopted a centrist political position that rejected the "extremes" of both the Left and the Right during his days at Oxford University in the 1930s (pp. 32–33). Influenced by the British economist John Maynard Keynes, Larson became convinced that government interference in the political and economic spheres could ameliorate the vicissitudes of the capitalist business cycle.	2
Stebbene effectively examines Larson's numerous articles on social insurance and a book on workmen's compensation law that led to his appointment as undersecretary of labor in 1954. After the publication of his best seller Know Your Social Security (1955), Larson joined Eisenhower's speechwriting team and later published another best seller, A Republican Looks at His Party (1956), a popular explication of Eisenhower's centrist political philosophy.	. . .

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