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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 973.916
EAN: 9780060936426
ISBN: 0060936428
Label: Harper Perennial
Manufacturer: Harper Perennial
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 512
Publication Date: June 01, 2008
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Release Date: May 27, 2008
Studio: Harper Perennial

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:


In The Forgotten Man, Amity Shlaes, one of the nation's most-respected economic commentators, offers a striking reinterpretation of the Great Depression. She traces the mounting agony of the New Dealers and the moving stories of individual citizens who through their brave perseverance helped establish the steadfast character we recognize as American today.






Rating: - Good Book
Gave this as a gift and haven't read myself, but the reader says it is well worth reading.

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Rating: - a "Must Read"
This is a must read. Buy copies for your parents and for your kids. READ IT and spread the word.

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Rating: - Anti-Roosevelt nonsense
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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Rating: - Timely New Look at New Deal
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 who were directly buffeted by that economy. Shlaes details how the 1920s were actually a period of core growth in the economy based on new technologies like the automobile and radio (like the 1990s benefitting from the info technology revolution) and the policies of FDR's New Dealers prolonged and deepened The Great Depression.

While introducing each chapter with key economic indicators such as the unemployment rate, the year ending Dow Jones Industrial Average and GDP, this is ... Read More

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Rating: - An Incomplete Analysis
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 to criticize the New Deal from a modern economic (especially monetarist) perspective. As useful as that criticism may be, you must go elsewhere to begin to understand what the times were really like, and I can think of no better places to go than "Since Yesterday" and "Hard Times."
Thomas C. Hone

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