This week at Cafe, Eric Rauchway is joining us for a book club discussion on his latest, The Great Depression and the New Deal: A Very Short Introduction. This is a great series, and I think this book in particular does an excellent job of laying out the details of the Great Depression and The New Deal in a timely, readable, and highly relevant way.

Eric Rauchway is a History Professor at UC Davis and he specializes in US political, cultural, and intellectual history. His previous works include Murdering McKinley: The Making of Theodore Roosevelt's America (2003) and The Refuge of Affections: Family and American Reform Politics, 1900-1920 (2001).

Joining him are James K. Galbraith, economist and professor at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs and University of Texas at Austin; Brad DeLong, professor of economics at UC Berkeley; Susan Feiner, professor of economics and Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Southern Maine; Mark Thoma, associate professor of economics at the University of Oregon; Anthony Badger, professor of history at Cambridge University; Jason Scott Smith, assistant professor of history at the University of New Mexico; and Julian Zelizer, professor at Princeton University.