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Invisible Hands w/ Kim Phillips-Fein

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Libery League - A Response to the Depression

During the early 19 thirties, things got worse and worse. And so i think that crisis of the image of business is part of what was happening here. liberty leaguew formed a coule of years into roosevelt's first term. What they actually did was produce pamphlets and other kinds of propaganda attacking evelt’s new deals. They also helped to finance lawsuits that were challenging different parts of the new deal. But could never be straightforward about that at allwit had to present itself as much more grass roots, popular, upsterge than it really was.

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