The Great Depression & New Deal (Part 4)
“Share the Wealth” Senator Huey Long Populist Gov. in Louisiana Use of radio in same manner as FDR Rhetoric of poverty / class tensions Share the Wealth Social Justice Assassinated in 1935 by Dr. Carl Weiss http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdzAbxsjPRA&NR=1 http://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth.php
End of the Depression Federal spending on an unprecedented level failed to stop it The largest entrance of the federal government into the American economy Made the federal government into a “broker state” between labor and capital Social programs and “safety net” Brought fed gov’t into the lives of nearly all Americans WWII ended the Depression