The New Deal and Texas History: Saving the Past through Hardship and Turmoil
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
The New Deal and Texas History: Saving the Past through Hardship and Turmoil
By (Author) Ronald E. Goodwin
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Lexington Books
21st July 2021
United States
Classifications
Professional and Scholarly
Non Fiction
Local history
Social welfare, social policy and social services
976.4062
Physical Properties
Hardback
200
Width 162mm, Height 240mm, Spine 22mm
485g
Description
This book examines the many ways in which the New Deal revived Texass economic structure after the 1929 collapse. Ronald Goodwin analyzes how Franklin Roosevelts initiative, and in particular, the Work Progress Administration, remedied rampant unemployment and homelessness in twentieth-century Texas.
Reviews
This volume adds much to our knowledge of the WPA's efforts in Texas and of the greater New Deal determination to guide the Lone Star State out of the grips of the Great Depression, while, as Goodwin reminds us, documenting Texas culture and preserving its history along the way.
-- "Southwestern Historical Quarterly"Author Bio
Ron Goodwin is associate professor at Prairie View A&M University.
