Invisible Hands The Businessmen's Crusade Against the New Deal [Paperback]

Here is the true story of the businessmens crusade: how organized money built a movement, found its voice, honed its strategies, and, after years of struggle, returned in triumph&Kim Phillips-Feins archival work is nothing short of phenomenal.Kim Phillips-FeinsA fascinating account of how important wealthy donors were to the rise and success of conservatism&While many historians have focused on the role of ideas, activists, and politicians, this work takes us to the people who put their money where their mouths were.With ferocious archival spadework and a sharply honed critical intelligence, this study shifts the agenda of history-writing about American conservatism and marks a new stage in its maturity. A very important book.[An] incisive study&Combining piquant profiles of corporate firebrands with a trenchant historical analysis that puts economic conflict at the heart of political change, Phillips-Fein makes an important contribution to our understanding of American conservatism.The riveting story of how economic conservatism became one of the leading strands in American political thought&Engaging history from a talented new scholarly voice.A compelling and readable story of resistance to the new economic order.