Shady trading
Was Congress's influence as strong as Roosevelt's?
Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time. By Ira Katznelson. Liveright; 720 pages; $29.95. W.W.Norton; £22. Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk
AT HIS inauguration, 80 years ago this month, Franklin Roosevelt addressed a nation gripped by fear. Liberal democracy looked like a spent force. Roughly 25% of the workforce sat idle. The middle class was in ruins. Elsewhere, dictatorships were casting liberalism aside.
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