The Forgotten Man - Amity Shlaes (Audiobook unabridged)

"The Forgotten Man" - Amity Shlaes read by Terrence Aselford (unabridged) hardcover edition published 2007 Original source: CDDA, 12 discs Compressed output: by track, MP3, --preset mw-us, --preset fm on music 14h33m58s 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 how the nation endured. In _The Forgotten Man_, Amity Shlaes offers a striking reinterpretation of the Great Depression. Rejecting the old emphasis on the New Deal, she turns to the neglected and moving stories of individual Americans, and shows how 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 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. The real question about the Depression, she argues, is not whether Roosevelt ended it with World War II. It is why the Depression lasted so long. From 1929 to 1940, federal intervention helped to make the Depression great -- in part by forgetting the men and women who sought to help one another. _The Forgotten Man_, offers a new look at one of the most important periods in our history, allowing us to understand the strength of American character today. AMITY SHLAES is a senior visiting fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and a syndicated columnist at Bloomberg. She has written for _The Financial Times_ and _The Wall Street Journal_, where she was an editorial board member, as well as for _The New Yorker_, _Fortune_, _National Review_, _The New Republic_, and _Foreign Affairs_. Shlaes is author of _The Greedy Hand_. She lives in New York.

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