The M.E.Sharpe Library of Franklin D.Roosevelt Studies: Volume 1: Franklin D.Roosevelt and the Shaping of American Political Culture

by Nancy Beck Young

How did Americans respond to the economic catastrophe of 1929? In what ways did the social and cultural responses of the American inform the politics of the period? This work presents a series of essays that examine these and related questions.

212 pages, Hardcover

First published September 30, 2000

About the author

Nancy Beck Young is a historian of twentieth-century American politics. Her research questions how ideology has shaped public policy and political institutions. Much of her work involves study of Congress, the presidency, electoral politics, and first ladies. Dr. Young is also interested in Texas political history, especially Texans in Washington. She joined the faculty of the University of Houston in 2007 after teaching for ten years at McKendree College in Illinois. She has held fellowships at the Clements Center for Southwest Studies at Southern Methodist University and at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. Along with colleague Leandra Zarnow, she was awarded funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities to host a 2017 Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers entitled Gender, the State, and the 1977 International Women’s Year Conference.