By Way of Analogy: The Expansion of the Federal Government in the 1930s

Hugh Rockoff, The Defining Moment: The Great Depression and the American Economy in the Twentieth Century (University of Chicago Press, 1998), chap. 4, https://www.nber.org/books-and-chapters/defining-moment-great-depression-and-american-economy-twentieth-century/way-analogy-expansion-federal-government-1930s.