Making of the New Deal oral history collection, 1981-1982

Scope and Contents

The collection is comprised of interviews collected by Katie Louchheim for the book Making of the New Deal: The Insiders Speak, published by Harvard University Press in 1983. The collection's narrators are Richard Bolling, Fontaine C. Bradley, W. Graham Claytor, Jr., Thomas Corcoran, Kenneth Crawford, Thomas I. Emerson, Adrian Fisher, Abe Fortas, Henry Fowler, Milton V. Freeman, Paul A. Freund, Leona B. Gerard, Gerhard Gesell, A.E. Goldschmidt, Francis Thornton Greene, Paul M. Herzog, Alger Hiss, Donald Hiss, Leon H. Keyserling, Mary Keyserling, Robert R. Nathan, John Oakes, Claude Pepper, Edward Prichard, Joseph Rauh, Gerard Reilly, David Riesman, Dorothy Rosenman, James H. Rowe, Richard Strout, Willard Thorp, Allen Throop, Frank Watson, Herbert Wechsler, and Elizabeth Wickenden

Subjects

• Interviews.
• New Deal, 1933-1939.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• United States--Economic policy--1933-1945.
• United States--Officials and employees--Interviews.
• United States--Politics and government--1933-1945.