02499cam a2200325 4500 300175556 TxAuBib 20071110120000.0 061006s2007||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2006049761 9780066211701 acid-free paper 0066211700 acid-free paper (OCoLC)74029445 DLC DLC BAKER BTCTA JED C#P YDXCP BUR VP@ CRH MBB TxAuBib Shlaes, Amity. The forgotten man : a new history of the Great Depression / Amity Shlaes. 1st ed. New York : HarperCollins Publishers, 2007. x, 464 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [415]-433) and index. 1. The beneficent hand -- 2. The junket -- 3. The accident -- 4. The hour of the vallar -- 5. The experimenter -- 6. A river utopia -- 7. A year of prosecutions -- 8. The chicken verses the eagle -- 9. Roosevelt's wager -- 10. Mellon's gift -- 11. Roosevelt's revolution -- 12. The man in the Brooks Brothers shirt -- 13. Black Tuesday, again -- 14. "Brace up, America" -- 15. Willkie's wager -- Coda. 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 it. These people are at the heart of this reinterpretation of one of the most crucial events of the twentieth century. Author Shlaes presents 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. Shlaes also traces the mounting agony of the New Dealers themselves as they discovered their errors. She shows how both 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--it is why it lasted so long.--From publisher description. 20151114. Depressions 1929 United States. New Deal, 1933-1939. United States History 1919-1933. United States History 1933-1945. United States Social conditions 1933-1945. United States Economic conditions 1918-1945.