The Forgotten Man, Amity Shlaes
The Forgotten Man, Amity Shlaes
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The Forgotten Man
A New History

Author: Amity Shlaes

Narrator: Terence Aselford

Unabridged: 13 hr 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 06/12/2007

Synopsis

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.

About Amity Shlaes

Amity Shlaes is the author of four New York Times bestsellers: The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression, The Forgotten Man/Graphic, Coolidge, and The Greedy Hand: How Taxes Drive Americans Crazy. Shlaes chairs the board of the Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation and the Manhattan Institute’s Hayek Book Prize, and serves as a scholar at the King’s College. Twitter: @amityshlaes

Reviews

Goodreads review by Mike (the Paladin) on August 04, 2018

I encourage the reading of this book. When I was in school we all came away with a certain vision or narrative of/about the period known as "the Great Depression". It was a fairly simple view. FDR was the "hero" who led us through the depression and out the other end. Frankly I don't know what child......more

Goodreads review by Brian on January 11, 2009

This was a tremendously informative book about the Great Depression. For me, at least, it debunked a lot of the myths about the New Deal and Roosevelt's first one hundred days in office. I felt Amity Shlaes did a monumental and extremely thorough job of researching the economic history of this era.......more

Goodreads review by Thomas on October 18, 2020

If you’re of the firm opinion that Atlas Shrugged is one of the greatest books ever written you’ll probably love this. This is a very one-sided history of the Great Depression. It’s not what I was expecting when I bought it. For one thing, I was expecting a history that would give equal time to the......more

Goodreads review by Clif on December 23, 2021

This book provides a critical review of actions taken during the Great Depression from 1929 to 1940, and it reflects on whether theses actions helped or hurt the prospects for economic recovery. Viewing that era from today’s perspective can provide plenty of things to criticize. However, we today ar......more

Goodreads review by Rebecca on August 03, 2008

Readable but a little dense--it's never taken me 3 weeks to read 400 pages before. This sounds like the kind of book that would only be of interest to a history nerd, but with the current situation it's an absolutely imperative read for all voters. We're all fed one version of the Depression and the......more

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