/lit/ - Literature

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Recognizing the existence of different races does not imply any contempt for them.

Can anyone recommend a comprehensive book about the American political landscape of the 1930's? I'm also interested in the social and economic conditions of the time, but I'd really like to understand the party that FDR built. More broadly I'd like to examine the forces that made a big tent coalition based on economic issues possible in the 1930's. I'm trying to figure out how to populism of that period differed from that of today.

I prefer biography, but any serious history works. I read Huey Long's biography by T. Harry Williams and I thought it was a great window into Louisiana politics and southern populism at the time. However, it had a very personal and local focus and paid less attention to national issues then I'd have liked. I'm fine with a left wing history, but I'd like a degree of nuance. Please avoid recommending Howard Zinn types. Dry and Academic is not a problem. I also recently read Caro's "The Powerbroker" and that's kind of my gold standard for biographical history. If there's any biography in a similar vein dealing with the New Deal then I'd love to know about it. Thanks in advance.

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