New Deal Law and Order and the Modern Liberal State

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Mike talks with historian Anthony Gregory, author of multiple publications on national security, constitutionalism, and legal theory. His latest book is New Deal Law and Order: How The War on Crime Built The Modern Liberal State.

Topics Mike & Anthony Discuss Include:

- the origin of the “war on crime”

- how the war on crime paved the way for the modern liberal state

- FDR’s “creative constitutionalism”

- J. Edgar Hoover and the creation of the modern FBI

- the war on crime and the Civil Rights Movement

- consequences of New Deal law & order

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