Book of the week
“Barely 100 days into Biden’s administration, people are already comparing his ambitions to those of FDR”
Why the New Deal Matters
Eric Rauchway
Yale University Press, £18.72
A new American president, derided as infirm and incapable of governing, enters office during a national crisis that has damaged the economy and inflamed social tensions in ways that seem to threaten the future of democracy itself. As Professor
