Was Laura Ingalls Wilder’s beloved children’s series written as an anti-New Deal fable? The Wilder family papers suggest yes.
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My daughters enjoyed this series (books and tv show) when they were young. They have shared the stories with their own children.
This is an interesting article about the connection between Laura Ingalls Wilder’s daughter, Rose, and the Libertarian Party.
More from the article:
From the publication of the first book in 1932, the series was immediately popular. And, at a time when President Franklin D. Roosevelt was introducing the major federal initiatives of the New Deal and Social Security as a way out of the Depression, the Little House books lulled children to sleep with the opposite message. The books placed self-reliance at the heart of the American myth: If the pioneers wanted a farm, they found one; if they needed food, they killed it or grew it; if they needed shelter, they built it.
I never read the books, but they sound like they’d be interesting reading.
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