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Publication date: 13th July 2011 by D. K. Adams
Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal
New Deal is the name given to the policies of the American president Franklin D. Roosevelt during the 1930s. Elected in 1932, at a time of great economic depression, he sought to alleviate distress by using the inherent powers of government, and the New Deal era come to be seen as a one of the classic watersheds in United States history.