EPISODE 10: Kim Phillips-Fein on the businessmen’s crusade against the New Deal

Kim Phillips-Fein discusses her book Invisible Hands: The Businessmen’s Crusade Against the New Deal.

Today we’ll focus on the history of resistance to the New Deal. Kim Phillips-Fein details how many of the most prominent elites had their ideas and practices shaped by groups that were part of organized resistance to the New Deal. She argues that this history helps revise common understandings of the rise of conservatism in the 1970s and after.

Check out the episode here.

And read Kim’s new article in The Atlantic here.

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