Freedom from want : American liberalism and the idea of the consumer / Kathleen G. Donohue.
"In 1941, Franklin Delano Roosevelt identified "four essential human freedoms." Three of these - freedom from fear, freedom of speech, and freedom of religion - had long been understood as defining principles of liberalism. Roosevelt's fourth freedom - freedom from want - was not...
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2003.
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| Series: | New studies in American intellectual and cultural history.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. The Producerist Worldview, 1870-1900
- 2. Legitimizing the Consumer, 1880-1900
- 3. At the Crossroads, 1899-1912
- 4. Politicizing the Consumer, 1909-1923
- 5. "What's an Economic System For?" 1917-1933
- 6. The Demise of Economic Planning, 1933-1940
- 7. The Common Ground of Abundance, 1933-1940.