The Democratic Roosevelt

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1957. First. Near Fine/Good. A near fine copy with blue cloth spine on black paper boards and red and silver titles on spine and front cover Small ink name of previous owner on ffep Very slight shelf wear on spine ends, but no other marks or damage at all Unclipped DJ has some edge wear, chipping and a 3" tear at lower spine front, but is now in a protective mylar cover

Rexford Guy Tugwell (1891 â€" 1979) was an economist who became part of Franklin D Roosevelt's first "Brain Trust", a group of Columbia University academics who helped develop policy recommendations leading up to Roosevelt's New Deal Tugwell served in FDR's administration until he was forced out in 1936 He was a specialist on planning and believed the government should have large-scale plans to move the economy out of the Great Depression because private businesses were too frozen in place to do the job He helped design the New Deal farm program and the Resettlement Administration that moved subsistence farmers into small rented farms under close supervision His ideas on suburban planning resulted in the construction of Greenbelt, Maryland, with low-cost rents for relief families He was denounced by conservatives for advocating state-directed economic planning to overcome the Great Depression 712 pp.