TY - JOUR AU - Leff, Mark H. AB - Book Reviews 589 Hispanics, and youth. The challenge, never fully at the agencies, but offered courts the opportu- met, was to find “an overarching political ideol- nity to articulate new rules for judicial review” (p. 86). The third chapter, “Congress’s Watch- ogy” that could bind these constituencies into an ful Eye,” deals with the enactment of the Legis- effective coalition (p. 265). One can only hope lative Reorganization Act. The substance of these that a historian of Bells’s talents, perhaps even individual chapters and the connections among Bell himself, will chronicle the history of Califor- the New Deal and the Administrative Procedure nia’s liberals during the decades that lay ahead. and Legislative Reorganization Acts has already Allen Matusow produced a voluminous literature. Grisinger’s Rice University main contribution is presenting greater detail Houston, Texas with an emphasis on the institutional and ideo- doi: 10.1093/jahist/jat200 logical politics of framing administrative law. Chapter 4, “The Hoover Commission and the 80th Congress,” analyzes the politics and rec- The Unwieldy American State: Administrative Pol- ommendations of the First Hoover Commission, itics since the New Deal. By Joanna L. Grisinger. noting that with the key 1946 statutes behind it, (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. TI - Tax and Spend: The Welfare State, Tax Politics, and the Limits of American Liberalism JF - The Journal of American History DO - 10.1093/jahist/jat297 DA - 2013-09-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/tax-and-spend-the-welfare-state-tax-politics-and-the-limits-of-cedccIdQdT SP - 589 EP - 591 VL - 100 IS - 2 DP - DeepDyve ER -