The New Deal and Its Discontents

FOR MONDAY:

Martha Derthick, Policymaking for Social Security (Washington: Brookings, 1979), ch. 11-12. ON CANVAS.

FOR WEDNESDAY:
Steven M. Gillon, "That's Not What We Meant to Do" Reform and Its Unintended Consequences in Twentieth-Century America (New York: W. W. Norton, 2000), ch.1. ON CANVAS.

Father Coughlin

Click this link to read a brief bio,

Pro-FDR at first

Then anti-FDR and antisemitic:

Huey Long

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Huey Long clip 1

Huey Long clip 2

And Dr. Townsend:

Click this link to see how his plan helped nudge FDR to push for Social Security.