The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression, (Paperback)

The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression, (Paperback)

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Publishers Weekly,This breezy narrative comes from the pen of a veteran journalist and economics reporter. Rather than telling a new story, she tells an old one (scarcely lacking for historians) in a fresh way. Shlaes brings to the tale an emphasis on economic realities and consequences, especially when seen from the perspective of monetarist theory, and a focus on particular individuals and events, both celebrated and forgotten (at least relatively so). Thus the spotlight plays not only on Andrew Mellon, Wendell Wilkie and Rexford Tugwell but also on Father Divine and the Schechter brothers--kosher butcher wholesalers prosecuted by the federal National Recovery Administration for selling "sick chickens." As befits a former writer for the Wall Street Journal, Shlaes is sensitive to the dangers of government intervention in the economy--but also to the danger of the government's not intervening. In her telling, policymakers of the 1920s weren't so incompetent as they're often made out to be--everyone in the 1930s was floundering and all made errors--and WWII, not the New Deal, ended the Depression. This is plausible history, if not authoritative, novel or deeply analytical. It's also a thoughtful, even-tempered corrective to too often unbalanced celebrations of FDR and his administration's pathbreaking policies. 16 pages of b&w photos. (June 12) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
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Apr 30, 2010
MrBookman
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Highly Recommend !

Fantastic Book on the Great Depression. A perspective that you probably did not have previousy . A wonderfull read for anyone who did not live through those times, and was given the fashionable views as to what might have happened; or for any one who lived through it, this book is wriitten form a fresh perspective, not generally circulated. I could not put this book down!

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Mar 9, 2010
blmom3
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Good read

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Nov 10, 2010
pak2
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U.S. history

Great insight into our U.S. History on the Depression.

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