The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression
by Amity Shlaes
Rating
LanguageEN
Total Pages390 pages
ISBN
9780224063128
Published
2007
Description
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 bur...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.