Critics of the New Deal
During the Great Depression, which took place between 1929 and 1936, President Franklin D. Roosevelt's instituted a series of programs called the New Deal. The New Deal attracted a number of critics. These include:
- Garet Garrett, journalist who traveled the country exposing the negative effects and corruption of the Roosevelt Administration
- Charles Coughlin, who had a weekly radio program to criticize the New Deal
- Herbert Hoover, former President of the United States
- Huey Long, Governor and Senator from Louisiana
- Al Smith, Governor of New York
- Robert Taft, son of former President William H. Taft, future Senator from Ohio
- Francis Townsend, a California doctor
- Wendell Wilkie, Republican presidential candidate in 1940
- Albert Jay Nock, libertarian author and social critic
- John T. Flynn, muck-raking journalist, New Republic columnist, former liberal
