Eric Rauchway (born 1969 or 1970) is an American historian and professor at the

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. 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

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and the

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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 Recession and featured on C-SPAN Classroom.

Academic books

* ''The Refuge of Affections: Family and American Reform Politics 1900-1920'' (

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, 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'' (

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, 2008) * ''The Money Makers: How Roosevelt and Keynes Ended the Depression, Defeated Fascism, and Secured a Prosperous Peace'' (

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, 2015) * ''Winter War: Hoover, Roosevelt, and the First Clash Over the New Deal'' (

, 2018) * ''Why the New Deal Matters'' (

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, 2021)

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 ''

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''. It was reviewed in ''The New York Times Book Review'' ''Library Journal'' and ''Publishers Weekly'' and other publications He contributes to

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's group blog Edge of the American West and also the academic blog Crooked Timber. After the January 6, 2021 Capitol Riot, Rauchway along with over 300 other historians signed an open letter calling for a second impeachment of outgoing President

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. According to Rauchway, "There has even been white supremacist violence relating to elections throughout American history, so I don’t want to say that none of that has happened before. But, I feel this is an important distinction to make for the president himself to incite a white supremacist mob to attack the Capitol with the express purpose of disrupting the election that he lost."

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