Social Security Act

Bibliography

Books

• Alter, Jonathan. The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006.
• Altman, Nancy J. The Battle for Social Security: From FDR's Vision to Bush's Gamble. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2005.
• Béland, Daniel. Social Security: History and Politics from the New Deal to the Privatization Debate. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2005.
• Davis, Kenneth. FDR: The New Deal Years, 1933–1937. New York: Random House, 1986.
• Dawley, Alan. Struggles for Justice: Social Responsibility and the Liberal State. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1991.
• Dobelstein, Andrew W. Understanding the Social Security Act: The Foundation of Social Welfare for America in the Twenty-First Century. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.
• Edsforth, Ronald. The New Deal: America's Response to the Great Depression. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers, 2000.
• Kennedy, David M. Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929–1945. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
• Leuchtenburg, William E. Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal: 1932–1940. New York: Harper & Row, 1963.
• ———. The FDR Years: On Roosevelt and His Legacy. New York: Columbia University Press, 1995.
• Myers-Lipton, Scott J., ed. Social Solutions to Poverty: America's Struggle to Build a Just Society. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers, 2006.
• Witte, Edwin E. The Development of the Social Security Act: A Memorandum on the History of the Committee on Economic Security and Drafting and Legislative History of the Social Security Act. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1962.

Websites

• The Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum website. http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/index.html.
• “Social Security History.” The Social Security Online website. http://www.ssa.gov/history/history.html.