Book Reviews : New Deal Mosaic: Roosevelt Confers With His National Emergency Council 1933- 1936. Edited by LESTER G. SELIGMAN and ELMER E. GORNWELL, JR. (Eugene: University of Oregon Books, 1965. Pp. xxix, 578. $10.00.)
| DOI | 10.1177/106591296601900156 |
| Date | 01 March 1966 |
| Published date | 01 March 1966 |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
200
issues
have
reflected
the
paraideological
division
of
the
justices
between
a
minority
of
liberals
and
a
majority
of
conservatives,
and
since
the
conservatives,
but
not
the
liberals,
were
further
divided
ideologically
between
pragmatists
and
dogmatists,
the
more
cohesive
and
intense
ideology
of
the
liberal
minority
tended
to
be
the
dominant
ideology
of
the
Court
throughout
the
latter
half
of
the
period
of
this
study.&dquo;
Finally,
this
book
has
important
reference
value.
For
the
author
has
included,
for
each
of
seventeen
terms,
four-fold
tables
of
agreement
between
pairs
of
justices;
phi
correlation
matrices;
Guttman
Scales
for
civil
liberty
and
economic
enterprise
cases;
and
charts
showing
the
location
of
the
justices
in
the
factor
spaces
for
each
term.
S.
SIDNEY
ULMER
University
of
Kentucky
New
Deal
Mosaic:
Roosevelt
Confers
With
His
National
Emergency
Council
1933-
1936.
Edited
by
LESTER G. SELIGMAN
and
ELMER
E. GORNWELL, JR.
(Eugene:
University
of
Oregon
Books,
1965.
Pp. xxix, 578.
$10.00.)
To
characterize
national
government
in
the
twentieth
century
in
terms
of
its
astronomically
growing
powers
and
ever-widening
scope
of
operations
is
like
stating
the
obvious.
One
needs
only
to
recognize
the
facts
of
what
has
happened
in
both
democratic
and
totalitarian
countries
over
the
past
six
decades;
a
value
judgment
is
not
essential.
As
everywhere
else
where
this
tendency
has
taken
root,
in
America
Big
Government
has
necessarily
meant
big
public
administration
employing
huge
armies
of
civil
servants.
The
varied
functions
of
modern
government
have
demanded
the
mobilization
of
committees,
planning
agencies,
coordinators,
investigators,
public
relations
personnel
and
the
like.
Historically,
the
trend
toward
Big
Government
and
its
attendant
bureaucracy
was
accelerated
if
not
caused
by
the
demands
for
numer-
ous
regulatory agencies
during
the
Progressive
Era,
the
national
emergencies
created
by
two
world
wars
and
the
Great
Depression,
and
by
domestic
and
foreign
tensions
of
the
ensuing
cold
war
-
an
almost
continuous
wave
of
crises.
When
one
considers
the
overwhelming
significance
of
this
tendency
it
is
difficult
indeed
to
understand
why
American
historians
have
been
so
terribly
hesitant
to
undertake
studies
of
the
rising
federal
administrative
apparatus.
This
difficulty
is
compounded
when
one
considers
the
enormity
of
source
materials
presently
available
in
the
National
Ar-
chives
and
in
private
manuscript
collections
throughout
the
country
which
can
doc-
ument
the
formation
and
operations
of
administrative
agencies
as
well
as
the
deci-
sion-making
processes
of
the
federal
government.
We
do
not
presently
have
studies
that
can
be
regarded
as
adequate
histories
of
any
of
the
cabinet-level
departments.
In
spite
of
William
Leuchtenburg’s
recently
expressed
hypothesis
that
New
Deal
agencies
were
based
upon
precedents
established
by
those
ad
hoe
bureaus
created
during
World
War
I,
we
still
have
no
study
of
the
superstructure,
the
Council
of
National
Defense
and
its
subordinate
administrative
boards
spawned
by
President
Wilson
in
1916,
1917,
and
1918.
We
know
woefully
little
about
the
administrative
procedures
followed
during
the
Harding-Coolidge-Hoover
Era.
Whereas
certain
New
Deal
agencies
have
elicited
some
interest
from
younger
historians,
there
re-
mains
a
fertile
field
of
investigation
in
the
maze
of
alphabetical agencies
of
the
De-
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