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Article: The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression.(Book review)
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- June 22, 2009
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The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression. By Amity Shlaes. (New York, N.Y.: Harper Collins Publishers, 2007. Pp. 461. $26.95.)
The author, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and a journalist specializing in issues of political economy and taxation, offers a spirited and accessible contribution to the revisionist literature critiquing the New Deal from the Right. Amity Shlaes contends that economic stagnation persisted throughout the 1930s because "government intervention"--underwritten by both the Hoover and the Roosevelt administrations--"helped to make the Depression Great" (9). She seeks to redress what she regards as an ...