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More Flavor: Discussion FDR and the New Deal feat. Amity Shlaes and Jonathan Alter

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FDR's New Deal continues to be controversial, even 75 years after the fact. Considered one the Democratic Party's crowning achievements, the big-government set of policies enraged conservatives, who viewed it as proto-communist. Roosevelt also received a fair share of criticism from the left — historians like Howard Zinn denounced the New Deal for saving capitalism, while Barton J. Bernstein lamented that the government of the late 1930s failed to help the people in most need. Tonight, free-market advocate Amity Shlaes and Newsweek columnist Jonathan Alter face off over the pros and cons of one of the most ambitious sets of reforms in American history.

– Gerry Mak

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