New Democracy

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New Democracy is written by William J. Novak and published by Harvard University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0674275632 (ISBN 10) and 9780674275638 (ISBN 13).

Conventional wisdom dates the origins of activist federal government to the New Deal. William J. Novak shows that the roots run deeper. Tracing the gradual rise in demands for public-service government from the Civil War through the Progressive Era, he finds that attitudes about the role of the state changed long before FDR was in office.