| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 39.4

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| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 39.4 | The History Cooperative

*Kansas in the Great Depression: Work Relief, the Dole, and Rehabilitation*. By Peter Fearon. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2007. xv + 316 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, index. $44.95.)
In this thoroughly researched and clearly written study, Peter Fearon, professor of history at the University of Leicester, describes and evaluates relief in Kansas during the Great Depression. The Sunflower State's administration of welfare is exceptionally well documented, due to the papers of John G. Stutz, the state's chief relief administrator. Fearon uses Stutz's papers, records of federal agencies, newspapers, and scholarly monographs to explore how Kansas and its counties implemented the New Deal.	1
Fearon shows that welfare prior to the New Deal was poorly coordinated, inefficient, and unprofessional. The New Deal brought greater federal oversight that was warranted and "never oppressive" (p. 71).	. . .

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