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The Amazon Store at MillionDollarPetPix.com ( In association with Amazon.com )The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depressionby: Amity Shlaes  List Price: $15.95 Amazon.com's Price: $9.57 You Save: $6.38 (40%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 973.916 EAN: 9780060936426 ISBN: 0060936428 Label: Harper Perennial Manufacturer: Harper Perennial Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 512 Publication Date: June 01, 2008 Publisher: Harper Perennial Release Date: May 27, 2008 Studio: Harper Perennial Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: In The Forgotten Man, Amity Shlaes, one of the nation's most-respected economic commentators, offers a striking reinterpretation of the Great Depression. She traces the mounting agony of the New Dealers and the moving stories of individual citizens who through their brave perseverance helped establish the steadfast character we recognize as American today. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Good BookGave this as a gift and haven't read myself, but the reader says it is well worth reading. Rating: - a "Must Read"This is a must read. Buy copies for your parents and for your kids. READ IT and spread the word. Rating:  - Anti-Roosevelt nonsenseTypical anti-Roosevelt polemic. For people who still think that Herbert Hoover was a victim of circumstance and that 1920's Republicanism had nothing to do with the Wall Street crash of 1929. In short, historical revisionism at its worst. Rating: - Timely New Look at New DealPolls of historians credit FDR and the New Deal with ending The Great Depression while polls of economists credit World War II, according to Amity Shlaes, author of The Forgotten Man. This factoid is a reason while those who like to let data speak will generally appreciate this book while those who continue to hoist The New Deal on a pedestal will see Shlaes as heretical. This very timely book revisits the 1920s and 1930s through the eyes of both architects of the economy and those ... Read More Rating:  - An Incomplete AnalysisIf you read "The Forgotten Man," please make sure that you also read "Since Yesterday," by Frederick Lewis Allen (New York, NY: Harper & Row, first published in 1939) and "Hard Times," by Studs Terkel (New York, NY: Random House, 1970). "The Forgotten Man" is not, as its subtitle says, "A New History of the Great Depression." Instead, it is an argument about what made the Great Depresion worse than it otherwise might have been. That is, it is less a comprehensive history than it is an effort to ... Read More 
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