The Constitution and the New Deal Author:G. Edward White In a wholly new narrative of power and force, G. Edward White challenges the reigning understanding of twentieth-century Supreme Court decisions, particularly in the New Deal period. He does this by rejecting such misleading characterizations as "liberal," "conservative," and "reactionary," and by reexamining several key topics in constitutional... more » law. This is the only thoroughly researched and fully realized history of the constitutional thought and practice of all the Supreme Court justices during the turbulent period that made America modern. "In an important and unexpectedly timely book, G. Edward White argues that the conventional account of constitutional history, which views the New Deal as the source of a new era in constitutional interpretation, is simplistic and wrong … White's revisionist account of the New Deal revolution helps us understand our current constitutional debates in a new, more complicated light." —Jeffrey Rosen, New York Times Book Review "White's broader, alternate picture of New Deal constitutional jurisprudence is a worthy challenge to conventional historical and jurisprudential interpretations of the New Deal." —Steven Puro, Library Journal« less