Lexington Books
Pages: 260
Trim: 6½ x 9½
978-0-7391-4083-3 • Hardback • September 2009 • $120.00 • (£92.00)
978-0-7391-4085-7 • eBook • September 2009 • $114.00 • (£88.00)
Donald K. Pickens is a professor of history at the University of North Texas. He is the author of Eugenics and the Progressives and co-author of America in Process.
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 The Beaufort and New York City Years
Chapter 3 Keyserling, Wagner and the New Deal Integrative Liberalism
Chapter 4 Housing, World War II and Integrative Liberalism
Chapter 5 Integrative Liberalism and the Council of Economic Advisors, 1946-1953
Chapter 6 Keyserling and the "Defunct Economists"
Chapter 7 A Liberal in Exile: Keyserling in Eisenhower's America
Chapter 8 The Sixties: The New Deal Legacy and Integrative Liberalism's Future
Chapter 9 From Nixon to Reagan: The Age of Limits and the Eclipse of Integrative Liberalism
Chapter 10 The End Game: Keyserling and Reaganism
This book is a timely and relevant analysis of the philosophy of Keyserling, an economic adviser to the President—an important man in terms of economic history and policy for his era and for ours today. A good and revealing read!
— W. Robert Brazelton, University of Missouri, Kansas City
From his boyhood near Beaufort, South Carolina, to his work as an architect of the New Deal, Leon Keyserling cared deeply about the poor and the powerless. Professor Donald Pickens reflects on the doctrines of Hegel, Keynes, and Dewey, and on the influences of mentors Rexford Tugwell and Senator Robert Wagner, to explain Keyserling's faith in economic growth and social engineering to solve the crises of the business cycle.
— Dale Rosengarten, College of Charleston
A major figure in the post-World War history of American political economy, Leon Keyserling has long needed a full biography. Donald K. Pickens has met that need with this excellent account of Keyserling's life and career.
— Charles C. Alexander, Ohio University