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Jacob Viner’s reminiscences from the new deal (February 11, 1953)

In: A Research Annual

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  • Luca Fiorito
  • Sebastiano Nerozzi

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According to what is reported by theNorth America Oral History Association, oral history was established in 1948 as a modern technique for historical documentation when Columbia University historian Allan Nevins began recording the memoirs of people who had played a significant role in American public life. While working on a biography of President Grover Cleveland, Nevins found that Cleveland's associates left few of the kinds of personal records – private correspondences, diaries, and memoirs – that biographers generally rely on for their historical reconstructions. Nevins thus came up then with the idea of filling the gaps in the official records with narratives and anecdotes from living memory. Accordingly, he conducted his first interview in 1948 with New York civic leader George McAneny, and both the Columbia Oral History Research Office – the largest archival collection of oral history interviews in the world – and the contemporary oral history movement were born (Thomson, 1998).

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  • Luca Fiorito & Sebastiano Nerozzi, 2009. "Jacob Viner’s reminiscences from the new deal (February 11, 1953)," Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology, in: A Research Annual, pages 75-136, Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
    • Handle: RePEc:eme:rhetzz:s0743-4154(2009)00027a008
    DOI: 10.1108/S0743-4154(2009)00027A008
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