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The Great Depression |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: Ernest W. Lefever |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 9/1/2007 |
| Size: 1,402 Words, 8,810 Characters |
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THE FORGOTTEN MAN: A NEW HISTORY OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION
By Amity Shlaes
HarperCollins, $26.95, 480 pages
Amity Shlaes' brilliant and highly readable book surely must be the best analysis of the Great Depression ever. With the precision of an economist, a historian's sense of the enduring and a journalist's ear for language, she deftly parries the claims of FDR fans and defenders. She details Herbert Hoover's complicity in his successor's flawed perception of one of America's darkest hours. The Bloomberg columnist's The Forgotten Man will stand the test of time.
But before I address her analysis, a word about my perspective as a Depression Kid in a family of five boys living in York, Pa. I was 10 when the 1929 stock market crash hit. My father didn't think of himself as a "...
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...mprehend. The Forgotten Man, rich in analysis and anecdote, tells a story that needed to be told. Its basic findings are a convincing corrective to the mythologies that have clouded and distorted the origin and impact of the Great Depression and of Franklin D. Roosevelt, who misunderstood it and used it to advance his political objectives.
Copyright © 2007 The Washington Times, LLC.
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