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100	1		_aShlaes, Amity.
245	1	4	_aThe forgotten man : _ba new history of the Great Depression / _cAmity Shlaes.
250			_a1st Harper Perennial ed.
260			_aNew York : _bHarper Perennial, _c2008.
300			_axxii, 468 p., [16] p. of plates : _bill., ports, facsim. ; _c21 cm.
500			_aOriginally published: 2007
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [421]-438) and index.
505	0		_aCast of characters -- Timeline -- Introduction -- 1. The beneficent hand -- 2. The junket -- 3. The accident -- 4. The hour of the vallar -- 5. The experimenter -- 6. A river utopia -- 7. A year of prosecutions -- 8. The chicken verses the eagle -- 9. Roosevelt's wager -- 10. Mellon's gift -- 11. Roosevelt's revolution -- 12. The man in the Brooks Brothers shirt -- 13. Black Tuesday, again -- 14. "Brace up, America" -- 15. Willkie's wager -- Coda -- Afterword to the paperback edition.
520			_aIt'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 it. These people are at the heart of this reinterpretation of one of the most crucial events of the twentieth century. Author Shlaes presents the neglected and moving stories of individual Americans, and shows how through brave leadership they helped establish the steadfast character we developed as a nation. Shlaes also traces the mounting agony of the New Dealers themselves as they discovered their errors. She shows how both 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. The real question about the Depression, she argues, is not whether Roosevelt ended it--it is why it lasted so long.--From publisher description.
651		0	_aUnited States _xHistory _y1919-1933.
651		0	_aUnited States _xHistory _y1933-1945.
650		0	_aDepressions _y1929 _zUnited States.
650		0	_aNew Deal, 1933-1939.
651		0	_aUnited States _xSocial conditions _y1933-1945.
651		0	_aUnited States _xEconomic conditions _y1918-1945.
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