A new historical analysis of administrative law exposes FDR's suppression of civil liberties.
In reality, he engaged in efforts to intimidate and silence critics of FDR and the New Deal.
As Beito shows, Black's successor as Senate committee chairman, Sherman Minton, though less celebrated as a judicial giant,was equally effective at using investigative means for silencing and harassing New Deal critics.
In a spin on the ironic aphorism, these revisionist New Deal ministrations demonstrate that, in politics, no bad deed goes unrewarded.
Unearthing a little-known episode in media history, Beito shows both how FDR monopolized and weaponized the popular new radio technology, and how his government's monitoring of that medium empowered him, by the FRC's purported regulation in the "Public interest," to censor critics.
The New Deal champions built upon prior efforts to create a different model for ownership of the airwaves from our usual conceptions of private property.
In our own time, when the country is dominated by a nearly intractable administrative state, Beito's book exposing the troubling underbelly of the New Deal stands as a timely reminder that the Psalmist got it right.
https://chroniclesmagazine.org/reviews/the-new-deal-paved-the-way-for-todays-jan-6-prosecutions/
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