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When Good Government Meant Big Government : The Quest to Expand Federal Power, 1913–1933 / Jesse TARBERT / COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS (2022)
Titre : When Good Government Meant Big Government : The Quest to Expand Federal Power, 1913–1933 Type de document : e-book Auteurs : Jesse TARBERT Editeur : COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS Année de publication : 2022 ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 9780231189729 Note générale : copyrighted Langues : Anglais (eng) Résumé : The years after World War I have often been seen as an era when Republican presidents and business leaders brought the growth of government in the United States to a sudden and emphatic halt. In When Good Government Meant Big Government, the historian Jesse Tarbert inverts the traditional story by revealing a forgotten effort by business-allied reformers to expand federal power—and how that effort was foiled by Southern Democrats and their political allies.Tarbert traces how a loose-knit coalition of corporate lawyers, bankers, executives, genteel reformers, and philanthropists emerged as the leading proponents of central control and national authority in government during the 1910s and 1920s. Motivated by principles of “good government” and using large national corporations as a model, these elite reformers sought to transform the federal government’s ineffectual executive branch into a modern organization with the capacity to solve national problems. They achieved some success during the presidency of Warren G. Harding, but the elite reformers’ support for federal antilynching legislation confirmed the worries of white Southerners who feared that federal power would pose a threat to white supremacy. Working with others who shared their preference for local control of public administration, Southern Democrats led a backlash that blocked enactment of the elite reformers’ broader vision for a responsive and responsible national government.Offering a novel perspective on politics and policy in the years before the New Deal, this book sheds new light on the roots of the modern American state and uncovers a crucial episode in the long history of racist and antigovernment forces in American life. Nombre d'accès : Illimité En ligne : http://library.ez.neoma-bs.fr/login?url=https://www.scholarvox.com/book/88937330 Permalink : https://cataloguelibrary.neoma-bs.fr/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=561350
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