Tony Badger was een Britse academicus en historicus gespecialiseerd in de Amerikaanse geschiedenis. Zijn werk richtte zich op een diepgaand begrip van de Amerikaanse politieke en sociale ontwikkeling. Badger's benadering stond bekend om zijn nauwgezetheid en analytische diepgang, waarmee hij lezers een alomvattend perspectief bood op belangrijke perioden in de Amerikaanse geschiedenis.
In chronicling the life and career of Albert Gore, Sr., historian Anthony J. Badger explores the successes and failures of this Tennessee politician who was in the national eye for more than thirty years and whose career illuminates the significance of race, religion, and class in the creation of the modern South.
Anthony Badger explains why liberal campaigns for race-neutral economic policies failed to win over white Southerners. When federal programs did not deliver the economic benefits that white Southerners expected, the appeal of biracial politics was supplanted by the values-based lure of conservative Republicans.
Mr. Badger's notably successful history is not simply another narrative of the New Deal, nor does the figure of Franklin Roosevelt loom as large in his account as in some others. What he does is to consider important aspects of New Deal activity-in industry, organized labor, agriculture, welfare, and politics-and explores the major problems in interpreting the history of each. "The finest survey since William Leuchtenburg's Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal."-Frank Freidel.
This is a study of recent case studies of the New Deal which assesses the impact of the depression and New Deal programmes on businessmen, industrial workers and the unemployed. It explains the political and ideological constraints which limited the changes wrought by the New Deal.
The essays delve into the complexities of white liberal southern politicians during the transformative era of the 1950s and 1960s, exploring their responses to the race issue amid political pressures. Badger critically examines the misplaced hopes of influential figures like Franklin Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy, revealing how these moderates struggled to navigate the challenges posed by their communities' resistance to integration. His analysis highlights the paralysis of southern liberals, who often failed to provide a viable alternative to the prevailing conservative stance on racial matters.