How did historians from the 1970s to the 1990s view how FDR handled the Great Depression in the 1930s? They believed that his programs were a sort of "half-way revolution," and there was still a lot more that he could have done.

They believed that his New Deal programs were a "revolutionary response to a revolutionary situation."

They believed that he handled the Great Depression the best that he could at a time when American society was not open to sweeping reforms.

They believed that he should have focused more on wealth redistribution, improvement of race relations, and industrial regulation.