Research Catalog

Title

The second bill of rights : FDR's unfinished revolution and why we need it more than ever / Cass R. Sunstein.

Author

Sunstein, Cass R.

Publication

New York : Basic Books, c2004.

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Description

viii, 294 p.; 25 cm.

Summary

Using FDR's 1944 State of the Union Address as a starting point, the author delves deeply into the revolutionary mind that penned this remarkable declaration of economic rights and illuminates the demise of this ambitious program for reform in the wake of the president's death.

Subject

• Roosevelt, Franklin D. 1882-1945
• Human rights > United States > History
• Labor policy > United States
• United States > Social policy
• United States > Economic policy

Genre/Form

• History
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-280) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The speech of the century -- The myth of laissez-faire -- Rights from wrongs : Roosevelt's constitution -- The emergence of the second bill -- A puzzle and an overview -- The oldest constitution on earth -- American exceptionalism and American culture -- America's pragmatic Constitution -- How the Supreme Court (almost) quietly adopted the second bill -- Citizenship, opportunity, security -- Objections : against the second bill? -- The question of enforcement -- Roosevelt's incomplete triumph.

ISBN

• 0465083323 (alk. paper)
• 9780465083336 (pbk.)
• 0465083331 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2003025549

OCLC

53485245

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library