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Book Review
Disputed Ground: Farm Groups That Opposed the New Deal Agricultural Program. By Jean Choate. (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2002. vi, 232 pp. Paper, $32.00, ISBN 0-7864-1184-8.)
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The New Deal, in ushering in a political revolution in the United States during the 1930s, stimulated both adulatory praise and strident dissent. Political polarization was the rule of the day. Much has been written about Communists, Socialists, Farmer-Laborites, Progressives, and the movements spawned by such leaders as Huey Long, Father Charles Coughlin, and Dr. Francis Townsend on the left; less work has been done on congressional Republicans, journalists such as Robert McCormick, and groups such as the American Liberty League on the right. |
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