The Woman Behind the New Deal The Life and Legacy of “The New Deal was a big deal for America — and as Kirstin Downey shows in this illuminating and sparkling book Frances Perkins my predecessor as Labor Secretary was the moving force behind much of it Her legacy included Social Security unemployment insurance and other initiatives that have improved the lives of generations of Americans Frances Perkins Center Her Life The Woman Behind the Frances Perkins FDR’s Secretary of Labor and the first woman to serve as a cabinet secretary was the principal architect of the New Deal credited with formulating policies to shore up the national economy following the nation’s most serious economic crisis and helping to create the modern middle class The Woman Behind the New Deal The Life of The middleaged woman a social worker named Frances Perkins had spent a lifetime preparing for the job She had studied economic boom and bust cycles and knew they were a recurring pattern in modern industrial economies The Woman Behind the New Deal The Life and Legacy of “The New Deal was a big deal for America — and as Kirstin Downey shows in this illuminating and sparkling book Frances Perkins my predecessor as Labor Secretary was the moving force behind much of it Her legacy included Social Security unemployment insurance and other initiatives that have improved the lives of generations of Americans The Woman Behind the New Deal The Life of Frances Perkins An apparently dry subjectFrances Perkins was a remarkable woman and a major social innovator with political sense as a close confidante and adviser to FDR She was responsible for much of the social aspects of the New DealSocial Security child labor laws minimum wage The Woman Behind the New Deal The Life and Legacy of The New Deal was a big deal for America and as Kirstin Downey shows in this illuminating and sparkling book Frances Perkins my predecessor as Labor Secretary was the moving force behind much of it Her legacy included Social Security unemployment insurance and other initiatives that have improved the lives of generations of Americans Customer reviews The Woman Behind the New Frances Perkins is a woman whose name I knew but I had no idea she did so much for this country She was a more important figure in the New Deal than I had realized because shes the one who drew up plans for Social Security and unemployment insurance She grew up in Maine in an old family with lots of principles and not much money The Woman Behind the New Deal The Life and Legacy of “For all of her apparent modesty and fierce sense of privacy Frances Perkins wanted to be known by posterity for her contributions to FDR and his New Deal particularly Social Security An investigative reporter Kirstin Downey has uncovered France Perkins’s extraordinary strengths in shaping and securing the central domestic accomplishments of the New Dealers Frances Perkins The Woman Behind the New Deal NPR Frances Perkins The Woman Behind the New Deal Perkins was 52 rather plain and deliberately dressed in a sedate fashion She never wore makeup and favored tricornered hats and nononsense black and navy suits Early in her professional life Perkins had begun taking notes on male colleagues she filed them in a large red envelope labeled
Title : The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life and Legacy of Frances Perkins, Social Security, Unemployment Insurance,
ISBN : 1400078563
Release Date : 2010-02-23
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