It's no coincidence that, even as Tea Party and Republican Party leaders battle over the nature of conservatism in the Age of Obama, three new books debate the origin of modern American conservatism.
Providing an often-overlooked historical perspective, Gordon Lloyd and David Davenport show how the New Deal of the 1930s established the framework for today’s US domestic policy and the ongoing debate between progressives and conservatives. They examine the pivotal issues of the dispute, laying out the progressive-conservative arguments between Hoover and Roosevelt in the 1930s and illustrating how those issues remain current in public policy today.
[...] is it really the role of government to equalize Americans' personal income? [...] where and why has income inequality grown? [...] we have to look more deeply at the data itself. [...] as Stanford University and Hoover Institution economist John Taylor points out, the slow economic recovery, caused in large part by flawed government policy, has been a significant contributor to lower incomes at all levels.
