The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression

By: Amity Shlaes

Published June 1st 2007 by Jonathan Cape

Category: Biography

Pages: 390 pages

ISBN: 9780224063128

Description:
Challenging conventional history, Amity Shlaes offers a 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.