The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression - Hardcover

Shlaes, Amity

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 022406312X ISBN 13: 9780224063128

Verlag: Jonathan Cape, 2007

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The Forgotten Man is an incisive and controversial history of the Great Depression that challenges much of the received wisdom. --Harold Evans, author of The American Century and They Made America Amity Shlaes is among the most brilliant of the young writers who are transforming American financial journalism. --Paul Johnson, author of Modern Times Shlaes s account of The Great Depression goes beyond the familiar arguments of liberals and conservatives. --William Kristol, Editor of The Weekly Standard Entertaining, illuminating, and exceedingly fair. . . . A rich, wonderfully original, and extremely textured history of an important time.--The American Spectator Shlaes s chronicle of a fascinating era reads like a novel and brings a new perspective on political villains and heros. --Arthur Levitt Amity Shlaes s fast-paced review of the [Depression] helps enormously in putting it all in perspective. --Paul Volcker Americans need what Shlaes has brilliantly supplied, a fresh appraisal of what the New Deal did and did not accomplish. --George F. Will The Forgotten Man offers an understanding of the era s politics and economics that may be unprecedented in its clarity. --Mark Helprin "The Forgotten Man is an incisive and controversial history of the Great Depression that challenges much of the received wisdom."--Harold Evans, author of The American Century and They Made America "Amity Shlaes is among the most brilliant of the young writers who are transforming American financial journalism."--Paul Johnson, author of Modern Times "Amity Shlaes's fast-paced review of the [Depression] helps enormously in putting it all in perspective."--Paul Volcker "Entertaining, illuminating, and exceedingly fair. . . . A rich, wonderfully original, and extremely textured history of an important time.--The American Spectator "The Forgotten Man offers an understanding of the era's politics and economics that may be unprecedented in its clarity."--Mark Helprin "Americans need what Shlaes has brilliantly supplied, a fresh appraisal of what the New Deal did and did not accomplish."--George F. Will "Shlaes's account of The Great Depression goes beyond the familiar arguments of liberals and conservatives."--William Kristol, Editor of The Weekly Standard "Shlaes's chronicle of a fascinating era reads like a novel and brings a new perspective on political villains and heros."--Arthur Levitt

Reseña del editor:

Challenging conventional history, Amity Shlaes offers a striking 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. From 1929 to 1940, federal intervention helped to make the Depression great by forgetting the men and women who sought to help themselves.

In this illuminating work of history, Shlaes follows the struggles of those now forgotten people, from a family of butchers in Brooklyn who dealt a stunning blow to the New Deal, to Bill W., who founded Alcoholics Anonymous, and Father Divine, a black cult leader. She takes a fresh look at the great scapegoats of the period, from Andrew Mellon to Sam Insull of Chicago. Finally, she traces the mounting agony of the New Dealers themselves. Authoritative, original, and utterly engrossing, The Forgotten Man reveals how those dark years shaped both current political challenges and the strong national character that helps Americans to confront them.

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• Verlag: Jonathan Cape
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• ISBN 10: 022406312X
• ISBN 13: 9780224063128
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 480