| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.4

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Book Review

Kansas in the Great Depression: Work Relief, the Dole, and Rehabilitation. By Peter Fearon. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2007. xviii, 316 pp. $44.95, ISBN 978-0-8262-1736-3.)

Peter Fearon's Kansas in the Great Depression is a careful, systematic discussion of the coming of the New Deal to Republican Kansas. Despite the state's long-established conservatism, relief programs worked remarkably well in Kansas, often better than in other parts of the country. That can be attributed to features unique to the state: relatively few unemployed workers, a comparatively homogenous population, and a large population served by the federal farm program, which did not rely heavily on relief funds. The state also benefited from high quality relief administration and a somewhat compassionate response to the problems of the unemployed, whether local or transients. Although the system did not work perfectly, especially in the particularly needy southeastern corner of the state, it seems to have worked as well as could have been expected.

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