[Review] The Great Exception: The New Deal and the Limits of American Politics (Jefferson Cowie) Summarized.

[Review] The Great Exception: The New Deal and the Limits of American Politics  (Jefferson Cowie) Summarized.
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[Review] The Great Exception: The New Deal and the Limits of American Politics (Jefferson Cowie) Summarized.

Sep 02 2026 | 00:06:54

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Episode • September 02, 2026 • 00:06:54

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The Great Exception: The New Deal and the Limits of American Politics (Jefferson Cowie)

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Jefferson Cowie’s The Great Exception: The New Deal and the Limits of American Politics is a concise work of American political and social history that reinterprets the New Deal era as an unusual break from the deeper patterns of U.S. history rather than the normal course of liberal reform. Published by Princeton University Press, the book asks what made the New Deal possible, what kind of equality it produced, and why that kind of politics proved difficult to sustain. Cowie focuses on the period from the Great Depression through the 1970s, arguing that the federal government briefly used its power in unusually direct ways to support working Americans and expand economic equality. The book is not simply a celebration of that era; it is also an argument about its limits, its fragility, and the political conditions that made it exceptional. It is aimed at readers interested in inequality, labor, American liberalism, and the long history of political realignment.

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