The Unwieldy American State offers a political and legal history of the administrative state from the 1940s through the early 1960s. After Progressive Era refor

"The Unwieldy American State examines controversies over federal administrative law in the 1940s and 1950s"--

The New Deal left a host of political, institutional, and economic legacies. Among them was the restructuring of the government into an administrative state wit

This book recounts the transformation of American poor relief in the decades spanning the New Deal and the War on Poverty.

The question of how the American state defines its powernot what it is but what it "does"has become central to a range of historical discourses, from the foundi