... time. Kennedy focuses on a primary change in our political culture caused by the Depression and the war, our heightened expectations about the role of government in our lives. Kennedy also provides an evaluation of the New Deal. He rejects the reviews from leftists who attack the "conservative achievements of liberal reform." What did FDR hope to accomplish with his New Deal? "We are going to make a country," he told Labor ... perspective. He describes this as "a more coherent pattern than is dreamt of in many philosophies." For him the New Deal's main theme was the search for "security...

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