Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-272) and index.
Contents
Reevaluating the New Deal state and the public works revolution -- Economic development and unemployment in the early New Deal -- Making a New Deal state: patronage and the public works administration -- Dilemma of New Deal public works: people or projects? -- "Boondoggling" and the welfare state -- Party building and "pernicious political activities": the road to the Hatch Act -- Public works and New Deal liberalism in reorganization and war -- Public works and the postwar world -- Epilogue: public works and the building of New Deal liberalism.