Naomi Rosenblum has co-authored the chapter "The Democratization of Culture: The Legacy of the New Deal Arts Programs" in the new book "When Government Helped: Learning from the Successes and Failures of the New Deal", Edited by Sheila D. Collins and Gertrude Schaffner Goldberg, published by Oxford University Press.
"When Government Helped" systematically evaluates some parallels between the Great Depression and the 2007-2008 global economic meltdown, not only in terms of their economic causes and consequences, but also in terms of their political and cultural contexts and the environmental crises that afflicted both periods. The positive and negative lessons for contemporary policy-making are evaluated by a multidisciplinary team of authors across a range of policy arenas. This book is a unique blend of disciplines that presents a new set of guideposts- some beneficial, some cautionary- for the future.
