Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2022
Abstract
Bill Novak has written a remarkable book that debunks the myth that the American state was weak and unconcerned with providing for social welfare until it was transformed by the extraordinary leadership of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. He shows with compelling detail that the New Deal was not a magical or anomalous moment, but rather came about because of legal, institutional, socioeconomic, and democratic “heavy lifting” that occurred over the course of the preceding seventy years.
Disciplines
Administrative Law | Law | Legal History
Recommended Citation
Kate Andrias,
New Democracy: Finding Hope in the Past and Heavy Lifting for the Future,
Yale J. on Reg. Notice & Comment, July 1, 2022
(2022).
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