From Obstruction to Moderation

"This work examines the classic conservative coalition of Republicans and southern Democrats in the United States Senate from 1938, when the social reforms of Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal had largely been completed, to 1952, when Dwight D. Eisenhower became the first Republic president in two decades. Both contemporary accounts and most scholarly analysis usually portrays this fourteen-year era as one of resurgent conservatism which posed a threat to the survival of FDR's New Deal."--BOOK JACKET.