Introduction
Eric Rauchway (born 1969 or 1970) is an American historian and professor at the University of California, Davis. He received his B.A. from Cornell in 1991, and his Ph.D. from Stanford in 1996. Rauchway's scholarship focuses on modern US political, social and economic history, particularly the Progressive Era and the New Deal.
Personal Life
Rauchway is married to historian Kathryn Olmstead, who also teaches at UC Davis.He was previously married to Meg Arnold, with whom he has two children.
Works
He is best known for his 2008 book, The Great Depression and the New Deal, and for his associated commentary on Franklin Roosevelt's economic policies, which emphasized the effectiveness of the New Deal as a program of economic recovery and redistribution of political power. The Great Depression and the New Deal was recommended on NPR's All Things Considered as one of three books to read to understand the Great Recessionand featured on C-SPAN Classroom.
Academic books
- The Refuge of Affections: Family and American Reform Politics 1900-1920 (Columbia University Press, 2001) Reviewed in several sources:
- Murdering McKinley: The Making of Theodore Roosevelt's America (Hill and Wang, 2003), It was widely reviewed in both academic and non academic publications .
- Blessed Among Nations: How the World Made America (Hill and Wang, 2006) It had several reviews.
- The Great Depression and the New Deal: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2008)
- The Money Makers: How Roosevelt and Keynes Ended the Depression, Defeated Fascism, and Secured a Prosperous Peace (Basic Books, 2015)
Other writing
Rauchway is also the author of a novel, Banana Republican, which continues the story of Tom Buchanan, the primary antagonist in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. It was reviewed in The New York Times Book Review Library Journal and Publishers Weeklyand other publications
He contributes to The Chronicle of Higher Education's group blog Edge of the American West and also the academic blog Crooked Timber.