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Title: Congressional Conservatism and the New Deal : The Growth of the Conservative Coalition in Congress, 1933-1939 by James T. Patterson ISBN: 0-313-22676-8 Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group Pub. Date: October, 1981 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $74.95

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Summary: Lively recreation of the New Deal years
Comment: Patterson takes what could easily be a dry subject - the struggle between FDR and his attempts to remake the U.S. in his New Deal image and a cadre of conservative minded Senators and congressmen, the most prominent of them his fellow Democrats, just as determined to stop him - and turns it into a memorable study of power, principle, loyalty, and politics.

Patterson has an almost novelistic penchant for characterization. Such men as Carter Glass of VA, Josiah Bailey of NC, Burton Wheeler of Montana, Millard Tydings of Maryland, and Ellison "Cotton Ed" Smith of South Carolina attain a Dickensian expansion under Patterson's presentation. Glass, for instance, was so conservative that when the Washington hotel where he lived changed its wallpaper pattern, he would into a rage and moved out.

Patterson gives us detailed descriptions of this coalition of conservative Democrats and Republicans as they attempt to stop FDR's court-packing plan as well as some of his economic reforms. A highlight is the section where, in 1938, FDR went on the road South to try to defeat in the Democratic primaries some of the his chief legislative foes like Walter George of GA and the venerable Sen. Smith. The South's adoration of the President notwithstanding, the effort was largely unsuccessful.

This sounds like deadly dull stuff fit only for GINT majors, but Patterson makes it interesting, entertaining, and at times almost suspenseful.