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The New Deal Poured Millions Of Dollars Into North Carolina, Improved Tobacco Prices, And Brought The State Substantial Uplift Through Public Works Projects. Yet By The End Of The Decade It Is Curious How Little Of North Carolina's Society, Economy, And Politics Had Been Changed.--book Jacket. Conservative Constraints, The First Detailed Book-length Study Of This Phenomenon, Comprehensively Assesses The New Deal And Its Remarkable Effects Upon The Tarheel State. Focused Primarily Upon Political And Administrative History, It Reveals A Harsh Truth. Despite Their Great Expense And Urgent Social Fervor The Progressive New Deal Programs Were Neutralized In North Carolina By The Forces Of Conservatism.--book Jacket. Since Early In This Century North Carolina Has Enjoyed A Reputation As One Of The Most Progressive Of Southern States. The Accuracy Of This Image, However, Has Been Tested By Recent Political Incidents And By The Perspectives Of Notable Figures From North Carolina Whose Political Platforms Can Be Traced To Roots In The Thirties. In Conservative Constraints North Carolina's Traditional Image Of Liberalism, Which Emerged During The Period Of The New Deal, Is Shown In A New Lig

Author

Abrams, Douglas Carl, 1950-

Publisher

Jackson: University Press of Mississippi

Published

1992

Language

EN

ISBN

9780878055593

Subjects

History, Political Science, Humanities