Ira Katznelson

In Katznelson’s telling, racism and the Jim Crow South played major roles in the shaping of the New Deal. This thorough and vivid reconsideration by the Columbia historian and author of When affirmative action was white focuses on how southern legislators helped frame a new national power structure while protecting segregation in their home districts.

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Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time

Eighty years ago, FDR uttered his famous rallying cry to a nation: "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." Professor Ira Katznelson reinterprets the causes and consequences of the New Deal and its aftermath, putting new emphasis on the role of Congress and southern legislators in the formation of Depression-era foreign and domestic policy. A book signing follows the program. Free. (SqueakyChu)… (more)