Book Review

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Book Review | The Journal of American History, 86.3 | The History Cooperative

Workers' Paradox: The Republican Origins of New Deal Labor Policy, 1886-1935. By Ruth O'Brien. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. xvi, 313 pp. Cloth, $39.95, isbn 0-8078-2430-5. Paper, $17.95, isbn 0-8078-4737-2.)

Pity the poor historian of law and politics, adding another dry-as-dust monograph to the lengthening shelf of studies in the origins of American labor relations policy! How is she supposed to extend her readership beyond a few handfuls of academics—those who get the book to review, those whose work she aims to revise, and, in time, those who wish to revise her? The task is particularly difficult if one has chosen to explore a neglected and often tedious part of the story, the 1920s, so that one's book is almost over before the real action begins. . . .

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