Three New Deals

A thought-provoking comparison of Fascism, Nazism, and the New Deal—and the common roots of their appeal: “Historical analysis at its most invigorating.” — Minneapolis Star-Tribune Today Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal is regarded as the democratic ideal, the positive American response to an economic crisis that propelled Germany and Italy toward Fascism. Yet in the 1930s, shocking as it may seem, these regimes were hardly considered antithetical. Now, Wolfgang Schivelbusch investigates the