![]() ![]() ![]() It is why the Depression lasted so long.Īuthoritative, original, and utterly engrossing, The Forgotten Man offers an entirely new look at one of the most important periods in our history. ![]() The real question about the Depression, she argues, is not whether Roosevelt ended it with World War II. She shows how both Presidents Hoover and Roosevelt failed to understand the prosperity of the 1920's and heaped massive burdens on the country that more than offset the benefits of the New Deal programs. Shlaes also traces the mounting agony of the New Dealers themselves as they discovered their errors. Rejecting the old emphasis on the New Deal, she turns to the neglected and moving stories of individual Americans. In The Forgotten Man, Miss Shlaes, one of the nation's most-respected economic commentators, offers a striking reinterpretation of the Great Depression. These are the people at the heart of Amity Shlaes's insightful and inspiring history of one of the most crucial events of the twentieth century. Only through the stories of the common people who struggled during that era can we really understand how the nation endured. It's difficult today to imagine how America survived the Great Depression. ![]()
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