Between Two Eras: Anna Rosenberg and the Maintaining of the Alternative View of Public Administration, 1941

Since the early 1990s, scholars have expanded their examination of historical context in the development of public administration in the United States, particularly in the area of gender. No one, however, has examined how the alternative, or social-justice-centered, view of public administration survived between its initial period of development and its revival after World War II. This article fills that gap by demonstrating how Anna Lederer Rosenberg, one of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s key advisors from 1941 through 1945, maintained the alternative view through her political facilitation and national visibility