The Forgotten Man
by Amity Shlaes · first published 2007
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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. These are the people at the heart of Amity Shlaes's insightful and inspiring history of one of the most crucial events of the twentieth century.In The Forgotten Man, Amity Shlaes, one of the nation's most respected economic commentators, 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 individua
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…popular politics. A novel simply isn't good enough to be a cite. Here are some of the falsehoods from TGoW: https://www.history.com/news/10-things-you-may-not-know-abou... Here's a cite for you: "The Forgotten Man" by Amity Shlaes. A history of the Depression, it does not mention "famine". If you've got a cite from a real history book there was famine in the US in the 1930's, feel free to post it. P.S. I have…
on “Where Did Our Belief in Abundance Come From?” ↗I didn't see the problem with the city's action until I read Amity Shlaes's "The Forgotten Man" (http://www.amityshlaes.com/books.php) in which she describes the federal government's fight to displace private utilities with the Tennessee Valley Authority. The government used all the means it had…
on “Too important to lose: telco appeals city's fiber-optic win” ↗Look closely at FDRs policies and their effects they were a disaster. Here's a good book on it: https://www.amazon.com/Forgotten-Man-History-Great-Depressio...
on “U.S. arrests former Green Beret, son, in connection with Ghosn escape from Japan” ↗…Depression coincidentally lifted after his death. Out of necessity business was given a freeer hand during the war, sort of like Lenin's NEP in the 1920s. With FDR's death that free hand continued. Read "The Forgotten Man" or John T. Flynn if interested in this point of view. By the middle of his second term, much criticism of Roosevelt centered on fears that he was heading toward a dictatorship, by attempting…
on “"RIP Good Times": Silicon Valley's Cuban Missile Crisis” ↗Not mentioned: Amity Shlaes (the author of the article) also wrote a book about the Great Depression, called "The Forgotten Man". It is no surprise she would write about Atlas Shrugged. From the blurb about the book on her site: "Franklin Roosevelt systematically established the modern political constituency, from unions to…
I have not read "The Forgotten Man", may read it in the future. Actually I thought the article was trying for an easy to understand "hook" with the tax info, since it is unlikely that the top 1% of earners are the bulk of those buying…