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Introduction ix -- Hoover-Roosevelt and the Great Depression : A Historiographic Inquiry into a Perennial Comparison 3 -- The New Deal and the American Anti-Statist Tradition 27 -- The New Deal and Business 50 -- The New Deal and Agriculture 83 -- The New Deal and Labor 110 -- Lawyers and Social Change in the Depression Decade 133 -- The New Deal and the Negro 170 -- Aubrey Williams : Atypical New Dealer? 218 -- The Decline of the New Deal, 1937-1940 246 -- The New Deal and World War II 267 -- Fiction and the New Deal 310 -- Notes on the Editors and Contributors 327 -- Index 329