From Twitter…Jon Ston, you’re forgetting that Hitler, upon gaining power and forcing through the Enabling Act granting him ‘emergency powers’ as a dictator, never really did so with anything more than a slim popular mandate. His rise had just as much to do with backstage intrigue and underhanded deals as with political support. Consequently, whilst controlling [...]
Regarded by historian Carl Degler as a “revolution” in which “The American people…abandoned, once and for all, the doctrine of laissez faire”[1], the extent to which the New Deal constituted a change, rather than an attempt to protect America’s pre-1929 values from the pressures of the Depression has long been a source of historical controversy.
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The Republican’s free-market approach to economics was a double edged sword. The almost zealous refusal of Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover, and their Congress to intervene in the affairs of business undoubtedly provided innovators and entrepreneurs such as Henry Ford with the legal and regulatory ‘space’ necessary to expand and adapt throughout the decade at a [...]