Voluntarism, Planning, and the State: The American Planning Experience, 1914-1946 [Hardcover]

Voluntarism, Planning, and the Statepresents a series of case studies of the planning process in the context of modern American history in the period between World War I and World War II. Each essay draws on the works of leading scholars in the field and attempts to make specific evaluations of broad generalizations about the planning experience in the United States. The studies examine such relevant topics as unemployment reform, labor relations, military peacetime planning, New Deal planning, and the postwar debate over price and wage controls.

JEROLD E. BROWN is Associate Professor of History at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and has contributed articles toAerospace Historian and Periodical.

PATRICK D. REAGAN is Associate Professor of History at Tennessee Technological University, and a contributor toHistorical Dictionary of the New Deal(Greenwood Press, 1985). His articles have been published inMid-AmericaandOhio History.

Foreword by Ellis W. Hawley
Preface by Patrick D. Reagan and Jerold E. Brown
John B. Andrews, the American Association for Labor Legislation, and Unemployment Reform, 1914-1929 by Donald J. Murphy
John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Herbert Hoover, and President Wilson's Industrial Conferences of 1919-1920 by Charles E. Harvey
Interwar Air Defense Planning: The Role of the President's Aircraft Board by Stephen D. Bodayla
The Air Corps Five-Year Program: A Study in Planning by Jerold E. Brown
Creating the Organizational Nexus for New Deal National Planning by Patrick D. Reagan
NRA and the Planning Impulse by Francis Perna
The Death of O.P.A. and the Postwar Reaction Against Economic Planning by Gordon P. Henderson
American Planning: A Bibliographical Essay by Patrick D. Reagan