Download or read book Designing a New America written by Patrick D. Reagan and published by Univ of Massachusetts Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigates the intellectual and political roots of the National Resources Planning Board (NRPB). This work follows New Deal planning from the first use of social sciences in rational management in the 1890s, to the 1920s reform efforts, the creation of the NRPB in 1933, and its abolition in 1943.