TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shlaes,Amity
TI  - The forgotten man: a new history of the Great Depression 
SN  - 9780066211701 :
AV  - E806 .S52 2007
PY  - 2007///
CY  - New York
PB  - HarperCollins Publishers
KW  - Depressions
KW  - 1929
KW  - United States
KW  - New Deal, 1933-1939
KW  - History
KW  - 1919-1933
KW  - 1933-1945
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - 1918-1945
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [415]-433) and index; 1. The beneficent hand -- 2. The junket -- 3. The accident -- 4. The hour of the vallar -- 5. The experimenter -- 6. A river utopia -- 7. A year of prosecutions -- 8. The chicken verses the eagle -- 9. Roosevelt's wager -- 10. Mellon's gift -- 11. Roosevelt's revolution -- 12. The man in the Brooks Brothers shirt -- 13. Black Tuesday, again -- 14. "Brace up, America" -- 15. Willkie's wager -- Coda
N2  - It's difficult today to imagine how America survived the Great Depression--only through the stories of the common people who struggled during that era can we really understand it. These people are at the heart of this reinterpretation of one of the most crucial events of the twentieth century. Author Shlaes presents the neglected and moving stories of individual Americans, and shows how through brave leadership they helped establish the steadfast character we developed as a nation. Shlaes also traces the mounting agony of the New Dealers themselves as they discovered their errors. She shows how both 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. The real question about the Depression, she argues, is not whether Roosevelt ended it--it is why it lasted so long.--From publisher description
ER  -