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  Book Title: The
Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression	 	
  Book Author: Amity Shlaes
   Hardcover: 480 pages
   Publisher: Harper; 1 edition (June 12,
2007)
   Language: English
   ISBN-10: 0066211700
   ISBN-13: 978-0066211701
  
  Book Description
  Release date: June 12, 2007 | ISBN-10:
0066211700 | ISBN-13: 978-0066211701 | Edition: 1
  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. These are the people at the heart of Amity Shlaes's insightful and inspiring history of one of
the most crucial events of the twentieth century.
  In The Forgotten Man, Amity Shlaes, one of the nation's most
respected economic commentators, 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 through brave
leadership they helped establish the steadfast character we developed as a nation. Some of those figures were well
known, at least in their day—Andrew Mellon, the Greenspan of the era; Sam Insull of Chicago, hounded as a
scapegoat. But there were also unknowns: the Schechters, a family of butchers in Brooklyn who dealt a stunning blow to
the New Deal; Bill W., who founded Alcoholics Anonymous in the name of showing that small communities could help
themselves; and Father Divine, a black charismatic who steered his thousands of followers through the Depression by
preaching a Gospel of Plenty.
  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.
  Authoritative, original, and utterly engrossing, The Forgotten
Man offers an entirely new look at one of the most important periods in our history. Only when we know this history can
we understand the strength of American character today.
  
  Editorial Reviews
  From Publishers
Weekly
  This breezy narrative comes from the pen of a veteran journalist and economics reporter. Rather
than telling a new story, she tells an old one (scarcely lacking for historians) in a fresh way. Shlaes brings to the
tale an emphasis on economic realities and consequences, especially when seen from the perspective of monetarist theory,
and a focus on particular individuals and events, both celebrated and forgotten (at least relatively so). Thus the
spotlight plays not only on Andrew Mellon, Wendell Wilkie and Rexford Tugwell but also on Father Divine and the
Schechter brothers—kosher butcher wholesalers prosecuted by the federal National Recovery Administration for
selling "sick chickens." As befits a former writer for the Wall Street Journal, Shlaes is sensitive to the dangers of
government intervention in the economy—but also to the danger of the government's not intervening. In her
telling, policymakers of the 1920s weren't so incompetent as they're often made out to be—everyone in the 1930s
was floundering and all made errors—and WWII, not the New Deal, ended the Depression. This is plausible history,
if not authoritative, novel or deeply analytical. It's also a thoughtful, even-tempered corrective to too often
unbalanced celebrations of FDR and his administration's pathbreaking policies. 16 pages of b&w photos. (June 12)
  
  From Booklist
  Its duration and depth made the Depression
"Great," and Shlaes, a prominent conservative economics journalist, considers why a decade of government intervention
ameliorated but never tamed it. With vitality uncommon for an economics history, Shlaes chronicles the projects of
Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt as well as these projects' effect on those who paid for them. Reminding readers
that the reputedly do-nothing Hoover pulled hard on the fiscal levers (raising tariffs, increasing government spending),
Shlaes nevertheless emphasizes that his enthusiasm for intervention paled against the ebullient FDR's glee in
experimentation. She focuses closely on the influence of his fabled Brain Trust, her narrative shifting among Raymond
Moley, Rexford Tugwell, and other prominent New Dealers. Businesses that litigated their resistance to New Deal
regulations attract Shlaes' attention, as do individuals who coped with the despair of the 1930s through self-help, such
as Alcoholics Anonymous cofounder Bill Wilson. The book culminates in the rise of Wendell Willkie, and Shlaes' accent on
personalities is an appealing avenue into her skeptical critique of the New Deal. Gilbert
Taylor
  
  Reviews
  “Amity Shlaes is among the
most brilliant of the young writers who are transforming American financial journalism.”
(Paul Johnson, author of Modern Times)
  
  “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
heros—few of whom turn out to be as good or bad as history would have us believe.”
(Arthur Levitt)
  
  “Americans need what Shlaes has brilliantly supplied, a fresh
appraisal of what the New Deal did and did not accomplish.” (George F. Will)
 

  “The Forgotten Man is an incisive and controversial history of the Great Depression that challenges
much of the received wisdom.” (Harold Evans, author of The American Century and They
Made America)
  
  “The Forgotten Man offers an understanding of the era’s politics
and economics that may be unprecedented in its clarity.” (Mark Helprin)
 

  “Shlaes’s account of The Great Depression goes beyond the familiar arguments of liberals
and conservatives.” (William Kristol, Editor of The Weekly Standard)
  
  “Amity Shlaes’s
fast-paced review of the [Depression] helps enormously in putting it all in perspective.” (Paul Volcker)
  
  “The Forgotten Man is an epic and wholly original
retelling of a dramatic and crucial era. There are many sides to the 1930’s story, and this is the one that has
largely been lost to history. Thanks to Amity Shlaes, now it’s been re-found.” (Peggy Noonan)
  
  “Entertaining, illuminating, and exceedingly fair. .
. . A rich, wonderfully original, and extremely textured history of an important time. (The
American Spectator)
  
  “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 Wall Street Journal)
  
  “The
finest history of the Great Depression ever written. . . . Shlaes’s achievement stands out for the devastating
effect of its understated prose and for its wide sweep of characters and themes. It deserves to become the preeminent
revisionist history for general readers. . . . Her narrative sparkles.” (National
Review)
  
  “Captivating. . . . Illuminating. . . . The Forgotten Man is an engaging read
and a welcome corrective to the popular view of Roosevelt and his New Deal. . . . A refreshingly critical approach to
Franklin Roosevelt’s policies.” (Clive Crook, The Financial Times)
 

  “Amity Shlaes tells the story of the Depression in splendid detail, rich with events and
personalities. . . . Many of Shlaes’s descriptions make genuinely delightful reading.” (The New York Review of Books)
  
  “The Forgotten Man by Amity Shlaes
will forever change how America understands the causes of the Depression and FDR’s policies that prolonged it for
a decade.” (Grover G. Norquist, The American Spectator)
  
  About the Author
  Amity Shlaes serves as
chairman of the board of the Calvin Coolidge Memorial Foundation, directs the Four Percent Growth Project at the George
W. Bush Presidential Center, and writes a syndicated column for Forbes. She is the author of The Forgotten Man and The
Greedy Hand. 						

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