Anti-New Deal Newsreel
David Beito •
Thursday September 25, 2008 9:13 AM PDT •
Here is a rare respite for the standard pro-New Deal newsreels that usually can be found on YouTube. It is a sympathetic depiction of Fred Perkins, a battery manufacturer from York, Pennsylvania who chose to go to jail rather than obey the mandates of the National Recovery Administration.
David Beito is a Research Fellow at The Independent Institute and editor of the Independent book, The Voluntary City: Choice, Community, and Civil Society (with Peter Gordon and Alexander Tabarrok).
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