Tony Badger fue un académico e historiador británico especializado en historia estadounidense. Su obra se centró en una profunda comprensión del desarrollo político y social de Estados Unidos. El enfoque de Badger se caracterizó por su meticulosidad y profundidad analítica, ofreciendo a los lectores una perspectiva integral de períodos clave de la historia estadounidense.
Anthony Badger explains why liberal campaigns for race-neutral economic policies failed to win over white Southerners. When federal programs did not deliver the economic benefits that white Southerners expected, the appeal of biracial politics was supplanted by the values-based lure of conservative Republicans.
Mr. Badger's notably successful history is not simply another narrative of the New Deal, nor does the figure of Franklin Roosevelt loom as large in his account as in some others. What he does is to consider important aspects of New Deal activity-in industry, organized labor, agriculture, welfare, and politics-and explores the major problems in interpreting the history of each. "The finest survey since William Leuchtenburg's Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal."-Frank Freidel.
This is a study of recent case studies of the New Deal which assesses the impact of the depression and New Deal programmes on businessmen, industrial workers and the unemployed. It explains the political and ideological constraints which limited the changes wrought by the New Deal.