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Beito, David Timothy was born on March 8, 1956 in Minneapolis. Son of Rangvald Conrad and Doris Ethelyn (Quale) Beito.
(During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries,...)
During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, more Americans belonged to fraternal societies than to any other kind of voluntary association, with the possible exception of churches. Despite the stereotypical image of the lodge as the exclusive domain of white men, fraternalism cut across race, class, and gender lines to include women, African Americans, and immigrants. Exploring the h...
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During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, more Americans belonged to fraternal societies than to any other kind of voluntary association, with the possible exception of churches. Despite the stereotypical image of the lodge as the exclusive domain of white men, fraternalism cut across race, class, and gender lines to include women, African Americans, and immigrants. Exploring the history and impact of fraternal societies in the United States, David Beito uncovers the vital importance they had in the social and fiscal lives of millions of American families. Much more than a means of addressing deep-seated cultural, psychological, and gender needs, fraternal societies gave Americans a way to provide themselves with social-welfare services that would otherwise have been inaccessible, Beito argues. In addition to creating vast social and mutual aid networks among the poor and in the working class, they made affordable life and health insurance available to their members and established hospitals, orphanages, and homes for the elderly. Fraternal societies continued their commitment to mutual aid even into the early years of the Great Depression, Beito says, but changing cultural attitudes and the expanding welfare state eventually propelled their decline.
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David Beito has brought to light a remarkable and previously unknown chapter of the Great Depression: its tax revolts. They were widespread and systematic, and they made such huge progress in some places that they threatened to bring local and state government to its knees. Here we have an aggressive resistance to the New Deal, the form of some 1500 anti-tax movements in the United States that formed to resist FDR's looting. It's no wonder historians before Beito completely ignored this great movement. Beito explores their driving force, the leadership, the ideological basis, their progress and their dealings with the press. He shows how they worked the system to curb tax increases and roll back the taxes in place. Who knew? The movement has roots in the 1920s boom, when local spending zoomed and taxes did too. Taxpayers were already complaining. But when the Depression hit, the taxes were become a crushing burden, and political pressure mounting to repeal them. Governments, however, were strapped for revenue. This dynamic set up a conflict that exploded in protests. The author deals with how the elites and the government (including large corporations) smeared the movement as enemies of the people and society. Beito's book reads like a novel, complete with a tragic ending that teaches lessons for the future. Without meaning to give away the ending, the tax-revolt movement was bought down by a vast propaganda campaign, and the promise of good and better government in the future- a naive assumption that the leadership should have seen through. There is so much to learn from here! This is a first-class piece of historical research and writing. 232 page, paperback, 2008
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Beito, David Timothy was born on March 8, 1956 in Minneapolis. Son of Rangvald Conrad and Doris Ethelyn (Quale) Beito.
Bachelor, University Minnesota, 1980. Master of Arts, University Wisconsin, 1983. Doctor of Philosophy, University Wisconsin, 1986.
Research fellow Institute Humane Studies, Fairfax, Virginia, 1986—1989, 1993—1994. Instructor University Nevada, Las Vegas, 1989—1993. Assistant professor University Alabama, Tuscaloosa, 1994—2000, associate professor, since 2000.
(During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries,...)
(During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries,...)
(David Beito has brought to light a remarkable and previou...)
(Chapel Hill 1989 1st University of North Carolina. ISBN 0...)
Member of National Association Scholars, Alabama Scholars Association (president 2002-2004), Historians Against the War.
Married Linda Gail Royster, June 11, 1997.