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Books : The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression
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Binding: Audio CD
Dewey Decimal Number: 973.916
EAN: 9780061256431
Format: Audiobook, Unabridged
ISBN: 0061256439
Label: HarperAudio
Manufacturer: HarperAudio
Number Of Items: 12
Publication Date: June 01, 2007
Publisher: HarperAudio
Release Date: June 12, 2007
Studio: HarperAudio
Sales Rank: 109394
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It's difficult today to imagine how America survived the Great Depression. Only through the stories of the common people who struggled during that era can we really understand how the nation endured. In The Forgotten Man, Amity Shlaes offers a striking reinterpretation of the Great Depression. Rejecting the old emphasis on the New Deal, she turns to the neglected and moving stories of individual Americans, and shows how they helped establish the steadfast character we developed as a nation.
Shlaes also traces the mounting agony of the New Dealers themselves as they discovered their errors. She shows how both Presidents Hoover and Roosevelt failed to understand the prosperity of the 1920s and heaped massive burdens on the country that more than offset the benefit of New Deal programs. The real question about the Depression, she argues, is not whether Roosevelt ended it with World War II. It is why the Depression lasted so long. From 1929 to 1940, federal intervention helped to make the Depression great—in part by forgetting the men and women who sought to help one another. The Forgotten Man, offers a new look at one of the most important periods in our history, allowing us to understand the strength of American character today.
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Typical anti-Roosevelt polemic. For people who still think that Herbert Hoover was a victim of circumstance and that 1920's Republicanism had nothing to do with the Wall Street crash of 1929. In short, historical revisionism at its worst.
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Polls of historians credit FDR and the New Deal with ending The Great Depression while polls of economists credit World War II, according to Amity Shlaes, author of The Forgotten Man. This factoid is a reason while those who like to let data speak will generally appreciate this book while those who continue to hoist The New Deal on a pedestal will see Shlaes as heretical.
This very timely book revisits the 1920s and 1930s through the eyes of both architects of the economy and those ... Read More
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If you read "The Forgotten Man," please make sure that you also read "Since Yesterday," by Frederick Lewis Allen (New York, NY: Harper & Row, first published in 1939) and "Hard Times," by Studs Terkel (New York, NY: Random House, 1970). "The Forgotten Man" is not, as its subtitle says, "A New History of the Great Depression." Instead, it is an argument about what made the Great Depresion worse than it otherwise might have been. That is, it is less a comprehensive history than it is an effort ... Read More
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Great Book. Tremendous insight into what prolonged the depression. The tradgedy is that our leaders are duplicating the behavior of the 30's almost to the letter. We can't seem to learn from the past. Even from our own history. What an incompetent group of people we have in Washington. Sadly, the pain is about to increase rather than decrease. A must read for anyone who cares about the future of our great nation.
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Amity Schlaes goes into such great depth into the pysche of all the major players of The Great Depression. It is lengthy reading but worthwhile if you really want to know what happened during FDR's regime.
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Binding: Audio CD
Dewey Decimal Number: 973.916
EAN: 9780061256431
Format: Audiobook, Unabridged
ISBN: 0061256439
Label: HarperAudio
Manufacturer: HarperAudio
Number Of Items: 12
Publication Date: June 01, 2007
Publisher: HarperAudio
Release Date: June 12, 2007
Studio: HarperAudio
Sales Rank: 109394
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