The Philosopher-Lobbyist

Mordecai Lee is Professor of Governmental Affairs at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. He is the author of several books, including The First Presidential Communications Agency: FDR's Office of Government Reports, also published by SUNY Press, and Promoting the War Effort: Robert Horton and Federal Propaganda, 1938–1946.

Preface and Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction

Part I. Inventing the People’s Lobby

1. John Dewey and Benjamin Marsh before the People’s Lobby

2. Constructing the People’s Lobby, 1928–1931

Part II. Dewey as President of the People’s Lobby

3. Policy Advocacy during the Coolidge and Hoover Presidencies, 1928-1932

4. Lobby Operations and Conservative Attacks, 1928–1932

5. Policy Advocacy during FDR’s First Term: Criticizing the First New Deal as Too Conservative, 1933–1934

6. Policy Advocacy during FDR’s First Term: Criticizing the Second New Deal as Too Conservative, 1935–1936

7. Lobby Operations and Conservative Attacks during FDR’s First Term, 1933–1936

Part III. Dewey as Honorary President of the People’s Lobby and After

8. Policy Advocacy during FDR’s Second Term, 1937–1940

9. Lobby Operations and Conservative Attacks during FDR’s Second Term, 1937-1940

10. Policy Advocacy and Lobby Operations after Dewey: World War II and Postwar America, 1941–1950

11. Denouement and After

Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index