May 9th
Hoover Institution | 1399 New York Avenue, NW Suite 500 Washington, DC 20005
12 – 1 PM
Join the National Security Institute and the Hoover Institution for a lunch discussion featuring David Davenport, co-author of How Public Policy Became War and Hoover Research Fellow, and Jamil N. Jaffer, NSI Founder and Hoover Visiting Fellow.
About the book:
As a response to the Great Depression and an expression of executive power, President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal is widely understood as a turning point in American history. In How Public Policy Became War, David Davenport and Gordon Lloyd go even further, calling the New Deal “America’s French Revolution,” refashioning American government and public policy in ways that have grown to epic proportions. Today we have wars on everything from poverty and crime to drugs and energy consumption and we live under thirty states of national emergency, all of which changes how policy is made and implemented for the worse.