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Forgotten Man, The

Amity Shlaes

Why did the United States seem to forget how to grow during the Depression, and what did the New Deal change?

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Author
Amity Shlaes

Why read it

  • You will question whether New Deal experiments such as the NRA delivered the full recovery they promised
  • You will see Herbert Hoover as an energetic organizer of government action, not a passive bystander, starting with the great Mississippi flood
  • You will learn how the New Deal turned prosecutors on Wall Street bankers, utility executives and even Andrew Mellon after the crash

Who it is for

  • A voter trying to judge government stimulus plans
  • A history student comparing the Depression with later crises
  • A reader of economic history interested in Hoover and Roosevelt

Contents

  1. the forgotten man
  2. AMITY SHLAES
  3. introduction
  4. the beneficent hand
  5. the junket
  6. the accident
  7. the hour of the vallar
  8. the experimenter
  9. a river utopia
  10. a year of prosecutions
  11. the chicken versus the eagle
  12. Photographic Insert
  13. roosevelt’s wager
  14. mellon’s gift
  15. roosevelt’s revolution
  16. the man in the brooks brothers shirt
  17. black tuesday, again
  18. “brace up, america”
  19. willkie’s wager
  20. Coda
  21. bibliographic notes
  22. searchable terms

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