The Forgotten Man: A New History Of The Great Depression [Paperback]

InThe 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.

Amity Shlaes is among the most brilliant of the young writers who are transforming American financial journalism.I could not put this book down. Ms. Shlaes timely chronicle of a fascinating era reads like a novel and brings a new perspective on political villains and herosfew of whom turn out to be as good or bad as history would have us believe.Americans need what Shlaes has brilliantly supplied, a fresh appraisal of what the New Deal did and did not accomplish.The Forgotten Manis an incisive and controversial history of the Great Depression that challenges much of the received wisdom.The Forgotten Manoffers an understanding of the eras politics and economics that may be unprecedented in its clarity.Shlaess account of The Great Depression goes beyond the familiar arguments of liberals and conservatives.Amity Shlaess fast-paced review of the [Depression] helps enormously in putting it all in perspective.The Forgotten Manis an epic and wholly original retelling of a dramatic and crucial era. There are many sides to the 1930s story, and this is the one that has largely been lost to history. Thanks to Amity Shlaes, now its been re-found.Entertaining, illuminating, and exceedingly fair. . . . A rich, wonderfully original, and extremely textured history of an important time.A well-written and stimulating account of the 1930s and its often dubious orthodoxies. . . . Ms. Shlaes rightly reminds us of the harmful effect of Rooseveltian activism and class-warfare rhetoric.The finest history of the Great Depression ever written. . . . Shlaess achievement stands oulƒ6