The Money Makers: How Roosevelt and Keynes Ended the Depression, Defeated Fascism, and Secured a Prosperous Peace by Eric Rauchway (Basic Books, 2015). Rauchway, professor of history, provides an absorbing narrative showing how President Franklin Roosevelt and his advisors pulled the levers of monetary policy to save the domestic economy and propel the United States to unprecedented prosperity and superpower status.

Eric Rauchway's newest book, Why the New Deal Matters, was published by Yale University Press in 2021. He welcomes applications for graduate study in U.S. history during the 1930s and 1940s, with special interest in policies of the Roosevelt administration. He has chaired the UC Davis Senate committees on the library and on academic freedom and responsibility, as well as the systemwide committee on academic freedom.

Professor Rauchway's recent research focuses on the New Deal and the Second World War. He has consulted for the U.S. Department of Justice and a major Hollywood studio, and welcomes inquiries from prospective graduate students interested in studying the United States in the era of the Great Depression and the New Deal.

View the book at Basic Books