Remnants of the New Deal Order

A new collection of Fraser's essays, Mongrel Firebugs and Men of Property: Capitalism and Class Conflict in American History, brings together many of his most notable responses to lingering questions about our recent history. What is the legacy of the New Deal? What are the points of similarity and of disconnection between the Gilded Age of the late nineteenth cen tury and our current era of inequality? And is there a way to salvage hope about the future from the remnants of the postwar liberal era?