The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression
by Amity Shlaes
Published for the first time: 6/1/2007
390 pages, Hardcover
Genres: American History, Economics, History, Politics, Nonfiction, Historical, Audiobook
Challenging conventional history, Amity Shlaes offers a reinterpretation of the Great Depression. 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.
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