Wednesday, October 16, 2024
Hoover Institution | Stanford University
The Hoover Applied History Working Group held a special book-launch seminar: New Deal Law and Order: How the War on Crime Built the Modern Liberal State by Anthony Gregory, on Wednesday, October 16, 2024 from 12:00 - 1:30 PM PT.
The book launch panel examines how the 1930s redefined law and order, transforming liberalism and reshaping American government itself.
We discuss the New Deal as foundational to modern liberalism, but its crucial role in building the law-and-order state has gone neglected. This HAHWG seminar looks to Franklin Roosevelt’s war on crime for lessons on how political legitimacy relies on enforcement authority and considers the implications for today’s fraught politics of law and order.
