The Great Depression, FDR and the New Deal Emergency in America Webinar

With this second series, “The Pandemic Dialogues: Reckoning and Recovery,” the School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership turns to consider the lessons from past recoveries, like FDR’s implementation of the New Deal, and to discuss how the pandemic might affect the present and the future, U.S. relations with China or our trust in science and technology to improve the world.

When Franklin Delano Roosevelt first came to office as President of the United States in 1932, the country was mired in economic depression. How did Roosevelt act to address the conditions of the Great Depression? Are there lessons for the current economic circumstances in those troubled times?   

Speakers:

Sean Beienburg teaches American constitutionalism in the School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership at Arizona State University. He is the author of "Prohibition, the Constitution, and States' Rights" and directs the Living Repository of the Arizona Constitution initiative. After growing up in Phoenix, he attended Pomona College and completed his doctorate at Princeton University. His teaching and research interests include the U.S. Constitution and constitutional law, Arizona constitutionalism, federalism and state constitutionalism/politics, 19th and early 20th century political and constitutional history and Prohibition. He is finishing a book manuscript on progressivism and states' rights. 

Paul Carrese is the founding director of the School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership at Arizona State University. For nearly two decades he was a professor of political science at the United States Air Force Academy. He is author of "The Cloaking of Power: Montesquieu, Blackstone, and the Rise of Judicial Activism," and co-editor of three other books – on George Washington, constitutionalism and American grand strategy. His most recent book is "Democracy in Moderation: Montesquieu, Tocqueville, and Sustainable Liberalism." He studied at Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship and has held fellowships at Harvard University; the University of Delhi (as a Fulbright fellow); and the James Madison Program, Politics Department, Princeton University.

Marc Landy is professor of political science at Boston College. He and Sid Milkis wrote Presidential Greatness. He is the author of a textbook, "American Government: Enduring Principles, Critical Choices". He has published many articles about the presidency, federalism and public policy. 

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