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Redefining our traditional understanding of the New Deal, Fear Itself finally examines this pivotal American era through a sweeping international lens that juxtaposes a struggling democracy with enticing ideologies like Fascism and Communism. Ira Katznelson, “a towering figure in the study of American and European history” (Cornel West), boldly asserts that, during the 1930s and 1940s, American democracy was rescued yet distorted by a unified band of southern lawmakers who safeguarded racial segregation as they built a new national state to manage capitalism and assert global power. This original study brings to vivid life the politicians and pundits of the time, including Walter Lippmann, who argued that America needed a dose of dictatorship; Mississippi’s five-foot-two Senator Theodore Bilbo, who advocated the legal separation of races; and Robert Oppenheimer, who built the atomic bomb yet was tragically undone by the nation’s hysteria. Fear Itself is a necessary work, vital to understanding our world—a world the New Deal first made.

 

 

STIMMEN ZUM BUCH: / A wholly new approach to the New Deal takes history we thought we knew and makes it even richer and more complex. In this deeply erudite, beautifully written history, Katznelson. adopts an expansive view of the New Deal, extending it to the end of the Truman administration. / / A powerful argument, swept along by Katznelson's robust prose and the imposing scholarship that lies behind it.--Kevin Boyle / / Positing that the New Deal preserved liberal democracy, but at the expense of compromises with illiberal forces, Katznelson's hefty history weighs other historians' interpretations of the New Deal as it knowledgeably advances its own. / / Engrossing. It is an exhilarating pleasure to lose yourself in this old-fashioned example of original historical scholarship. Fear Itself is a sprawling, ambitious book that offers illuminating insights on nearly every page. Among Katznelson's gifts is the one most valuable to readers and most in danger of extinction in the American academy: He writes clear, energetic prose without a whiff of academic jargon or pretension. Entertaining and enlightening.--Louis Menand / / Fear Itself is a monumental history of the New Deal's greatest paradox, its connections with the Jim Crow South. Combining historical nuance with his clear eye for the big picture, Ira Katznelson contributes one of the most trenchant accounts yet of American liberalism at the height of its power in the 1930s and 1940s--a book of major importance in understanding our own political distempers and opportunities. --Sean Wilentz, author of The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln / / Fear Itself deeply reconceptualizes the New Deal and raises countless provocative questions. --David Kennedy, author of Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 / / Fear Itself is a provocative look at how modern America--created three-quarters of a century ago by the very Southern barons who were so important a part of the New Deal --was shaped. We think of history as a settled thing, tucked safely in a faraway past. This book is a reminder of how very surprising it can be. --David Shribman