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. "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 Wall Street Journal "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.- The American Spectator "Entertaining, illuminating, and exceedingly fair. Thanks to Amity Shlaes, now it's been re-found."- Peggy Noonan There are many sides to the 1930's story, and this is the one that has largely been lost to history. " The Forgotten Man is an epic and wholly original retelling of a dramatic and crucial era. "Amity Shlaes's fast-paced review of the helps enormously in putting it all in perspective."- Paul Volcker "Americans need what Shlaes has brilliantly supplied, a fresh appraisal of what the New Deal did and did not accomplish."- George F. 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 "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. 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. 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 real question about the Depression, she argues, is not whether Roosevelt ended it with World War II.
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.
Shlaes also traces the mounting agony of the New Dealers themselves as they discovered their errors. 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. In The Forgotten Man, Amity Shlaes offers a striking reinterpretation of the Great Depression. Only through the stories of the common people who struggled during that era can we really understand how the nation endured. It's difficult today to imagine how America survived the Great Depression.
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