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In The Forgotten Man, Amity Shlaes, one of the nation's most-respected economic commentators, offers a striking reinterpretation of the Great Depression. She traces the mounting agony of the New Dealers and the moving stories of individual citizens who through their brave perseverance helped establish the steadfast character we recognize as American today.

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Interesting but not deep enough	Customer Rating:
Overall this is a valuable book with some very interesting insights into the era of the great depression, but I felt it didn't go deep enough into the subject, wrapped up in a hurry and jumped around a lot. A definite contrast to FDR as hero mythology. A warning tale for out time. It could have been better but was valuable none the less.

I agree with the other one stars	Customer Rating:
I found this book to be a not-very-balanced overview of the New Deal and the Great Depression. The author seems to think that current New Deal scholarship is universally positive and that someone desperately needs to break ranks and criticize it. This is obviously not the case.

A Sparkelar Of A Book About A Depressing Subject

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The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression This book is not only written well, but also let's you in on the principal's thinking. It speaks of the feelings, for example, that was in some quarters when Wendell Wilkie was nominated to run against Franklin Roosevelt, for his third term. It tells you how Wilkie secured that nomination. It also tells you how the National Gallery got its start in Washington, with a donation by Andrew Mellon. It tells you of the feelings of people during the Depression who wanted nothing more than to earn a living, and get ahead in life. This book should be read by anybody who is interested in learning about the history of a period that helped shape our live.

The Forgotten Man

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My father was a young boy during the Great Depression and served our country in the Navy during World War II. As I was growing up I often wondered why he never had any kind words to say about Franklin Roosevelt. After reading this book I understand - the so-called "Progressive" movement that our country was submitted to back in the teens, the twenties, the thirties and even the forties really messed up the ability of our economy to "burn and churn" like it could if government got out of the way. Every high school age young person in our country should have to read this and discuss it with a teacher that isn't afraid to be objective. Thanks for writing this brilliant book !!!

Not a teacher.	Customer Rating:
I found the grammar in this book to be very poor. It was so distracting I had to stop reading. I don't understand how an editor would put a book to print that ends many sentences in dangling participles and others are just fragments that don't even pertain to the paragraph. In my opinion this is very poorly written.