ABSTRACT
Salvation by society was the most visible organizing political principle. Politically and socially FDR's administration may have been the most successful the United States has ever seen despite the fact that every one of his economic policies misfired. The traditional businessman saw FDR as a 'radical', putting labour into the saddle. FDR's tradition continued through the administration of Harry Truman. Truman was perhaps even more conscious than FDR himself of the concepts underlying FDR's New Deal. Political integration through the economic promise of prosperity - as against political ideology - is generally considered to work 'only in America' and not to be transplantable. But by now Mark Hanna's and Franklin D. Roosevelt's integration through economic interests is as dated as is integration through salvation by society. The last American President to try it was Lyndon Johnson. His 'Great Society' simply did not work as political integration as it would have worked twenty years earlier.
