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History is the polemics of the victor, William F. Buckley Jr. used to say. And it’s hard to find, in a free country at least, a more polemical history than the one generations of Americans have been taught about the New Deal and its political and economic antecedents.
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Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., The Age of Roosevelt: The Crisis of the Old Order, 1919–1933 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1957).
Cf. Charles R. Kesler, I Am the Change: Barack Obama and the Crisis of Liberalism (New York: Broadside Books, 2013), 113–16.
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Kesler, C.R. (2013). Epilogue. In: Postell, J., O’Neill, J. (eds) Toward an American Conservatism. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137300966_11
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