The Origins of the National Recovery Administration [Paperback]

This book explores the background of the NRA, the most important economic measure of the first hundred days of Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal. It also is the history of the business community's efforts during the 1920s and '30s to emasculate the federal policy of maintaining a competitive enterprise system.The book . . . should and probably will become the standard work on the cartel issue of the 1920s, both as it divided the business community, and as it generated policy conflicts in the government.