Critics of the New Deal - Definition and Overview

During the Great Depression, which took place between 1929 and 1936, President Franklin D. Roosevelt's instituted a series of programs called the New Deal. The New Deal attracted a number of critics. These include:

• Charles Coughlin, who had a weekly radio program to criticize the New Deal
• John T. Flynn, muck-raking journalist, New Republic columnist, former liberal
• Thomas Fleming, Historian
• Garet Garrett, journalist who traveled the country exposing the negative effects and corruption of the Roosevelt Administration
• Herbert Hoover, former President of the United States
• Huey Long, Governor and Senator from Louisiana. Note that, unlike most notable New Deal critics, Long criticized it for not going far enough.
• Albert Jay Nock, libertarian author and social critic
• Isabel Paterson, author
• Jim Powell, economic historian
• Ayn Rand, libertarian novelist
• Al Smith, Governor of New York
• Robert Taft, son of former President William H. Taft, future Senator from Ohio
• Francis Townsend, a California doctor
• Wendell Wilkie, Republican presidential candidate in 1940

Articles

• Cato Institute December 29, 2003 How FDR's New Deal Harmed Millions of Poor People by Jim Powell (http://www.cato.org/dailys/12-29-03.html)
• FDR Revisited The New Deal was no cure-all. By Jim Powell National Review Online (http://www.nationalreview.com/nrof_comment/powell200311200852.asp)

• Tough Questions for Defenders of the New Deal By Jim Powell November 6, 2003 Wall Street Journal  (http://www.cato.org/research/articles/powell-031106.html)

Books

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• Rethinking the Great Depression By Smiley,Gene (2003)
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• Salvos Against the New Deal by Garrett,Garet and Ramsey, Bruce (2002)
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• The Roosevelt Myth By Flynn, T. John(1948)(rev 1952)
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