1. The Great Depression & New Deal (Part 4)

2. “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

3. 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