FDR and the New Deal May 27, 2008

The late Arthur Schlesinger, the great scholar of the New Deal, liked to talk about how the best historians know that history is as "an argument without end." Now a new generation of authors has taken up that argument, and it's as controversial as ever. Join columnists Amity Shlaes and Jonathan Alter as they square off with strikingly different interpretations of the New Deal and its meaning for both Election 2008 and the country's future.