No new New Deal: if Barack Obama wins the presidency, comparisons will be made with FDR, another charismatic Democrat to take office during an economic crisis. The fear is that the true parallel may be with Jimmy Carter

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  • Author(s): Sandbrook, Dominic
  • Source:
    New Statesman (1996). Oct 27, 2008, Vol. 137 Issue 4920, p36, 4 p.