the forgotten man amity shlaes book review

Thanks to Amity Shlaes, now it's been re-found., I could not put this book down. There are many sides to the 1930's story, and this is the one that has largely been lost to history. Her narrative sparkles., The Forgotten Man is an epic and wholly original retelling of a dramatic and crucial era. It deserves to become the preeminent revisionist history for general readers. Shlaes's achievement stands out for the devastating effect of its understated prose and for its wide sweep of characters and themes. A rich, wonderfully original, and extremely textured history of an important time.|9780060936426|, Amity Shlaes's fast-paced review of the helps enormously in putting it all in perspective., Shlaes's account of The Great Depression goes beyond the familiar arguments of liberals and conservatives., 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., The finest history of the Great Depression ever written. Shlaes rightly reminds us of the harmful effect of Rooseveltian activism and class-warfare rhetoric., The Forgotten Man offers an understanding of the era's politics and economics that may be unprecedented in its clarity., Entertaining, illuminating, and exceedingly fair.

( The American Spectator ), A well-written and stimulating account of the 1930s and its often dubious orthodoxies.

A rich, wonderfully original, and extremely textured history of an important time. 'Entertaining, illuminating, and exceedingly fair.

The forgotten man amity shlaes book review