This is Democracy – Episode 145: New Deal: History and Legacies for Today

Jeremi and Zachary, with Eric Rauchway, discuss the legacy of Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal, and how modern policies in today's government echo it. Zachary sets the scene with his poem titled "In the Radio Static." Eric Rauchway is Distinguished Professor of History at the University of California, Davis, and the author of seven books on U.S. history including, most recently, Why the New Deal Matters (2021). He is the author also of Winter War (2018), on the conflict between Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt over the New Deal in 1932-1933.