Full name: The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression

Author: Amity Shlaes Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction, Economics, Politics Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780060936426 9780224063128 0060936428 022406312X

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. Similar books: Great Society by Amity Shlaes Freedom from Fear by David M. Kennedy FDR's Folly by Jim Powell The Fifties by David Halberstam A History of the American People by Paul Johnson The National Experience by Daniel J. Boorstin Eyewitness to America by David Colbert Rainbow's End by Maury Klein Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W. Loewen Empire of Wealth by John Steele Gordon The Accidental Superpower by Peter Zeihan Open Veins of Latin America by Eduardo Galeano The Great Depression by Robert S. McElvaine How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney Late Victorian Holocausts by Mike Davis The Lords of Creation by Frederick Lewis Allen The Marshall Plan by Benn Steil There Is Power in a Union by Philip Dray America's Great Depression by Murray N. Rothbard The Long Twentieth Century by Giovanni Arrighi