... the American political vocabulary, to describe his New Deal, his attempt to temper economic individualism with social democratic safeguards. For millions of Americans those safeguards - such as Social Security and bank deposit insurance - The Great Depression had decimated the independent middle classes, the small businesspeople and farmers who had been the bulwark of self-government. Roosevelt redefined democracy for a mass ... for exposing the safety hazards of General Motors cars, filed class action suits to fill the vacuum created by the collapse of social science. The naacp the Ameri...

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