The End Of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War

At a time when liberalism is in disarray, this vastly illuminating book locates the origins of its crisis. Those origins, says Alan Brinkley, are paradoxically situated during the second term of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, whose New Deal had made liberalism a fixture of American politics and society. The End of Reform shows how the liberalism of the early New Deal—which set out to repair and, if necessary, restructure America’s economy—gave way to its contemporary counterpart, which is less hostile to corporate capitalism and more solicitous of individual rights. Clearly and dramatically, Brinkley identifies the personalities and events responsible for this transformation while pointing to the broader trends in American society that made the politics of reform increasingly popular. It is both a major reinterpretation of the New Deal and a crucial map of the road to today’s political landscape.

• The Search for Order, 1877-1920
• The Impending Crisis, 1848-1861
• What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 (Oxford History of the United States)
• Liberalism and Social Action (Great Books in Philosophy)
• The Concept of the Political: Expanded Edition
• City of Courts: Socializing Justice in Progressive Era Chicago (Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society)
• A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870-1920
• The Transformation of American Law, 1870-1960: The Crisis of Legal Orthodoxy (Oxford Paperbacks)
• The Bill of Rights: Creation and Reconstruction
• The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit - Updated Edition (Princeton Classics)