Who introduced the New Deal?

Answer 1

Stuart Chase. It was his book, "The Road We Are Traveling" that interested FDR.

This book is the blueprint for The New Deal.

Chase is famous for the quote at the end of his book A New Deal, "Why should Russians have all the fun remaking a world?" - a reference to the "socialist experiment" in the USSR

A list of his writings via Wiki,

• The road we are traveling, 1914-1942: guide lines to America's future as reported to the Twentieth Century Fund. Twentieth Century Fund; 1942
• Your Money's Worth: A study in the waste of the consumer's dollar 1928
• The Tragedy of Waste 1925
• Men and Machines 1929
• The Nemesis of American Business 1931
• A New Deal. New York, The Macmillan company, 1932. OCLC 172909
• A Generation of Industrial Peace;: Thirty years of labor relations at Standard Oil Company 1941
• The Proper Study of Mankind Harper & Brothers 1948. OCLC 615390630
• Roads to Agreement: Successful methods in the science of human relations 1951
• For This We Fought;: Guide lines to America's future as reported to the Twentieth Century Fund
• Danger-Men Talking! a Background Book on Semantics and Communication
• Rich Land, Poor Land
• The Proper Study of Mankind Harper Colophon Books, 1956
• American Credos 1962
• Guides to Straight Thinking, With 13 Common Fallacies. New York: Harper, 1956. OCLC 307334
• The Economy of Abundance
• The Tyranny of Words. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co, 1938. OCLC 822896

Answer 2

The author of the New Deal was a group of advisers to FDR called the Brain Trust. At first the Brain Trust referred to three Professors: Raymond Moley, Rexford Guy Tugwell, and Adolph A. Berle, Jr. Soon others included Basil (Doc) O'Connor, Samuel Rosenman, and Hugh Johnson. The men developed FDR's economic policy and developed programs that became the backbone of the New Deal. This included regulation of the banks, regulation of the Stock Market, relief and public works programs, like the CCC and WPA.

Answer 3

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Answer 4

Theodore Roosevelt