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by: Amity Shlaes See Larger Image List Price: $44.95 Our Price: $29.67 You Save: $15.28 (34%) Prices subject to change. Third Party New Price: $29.67 Availability: Usually ships in 11 to 13 days This item ships for FREE with Super Saver Shipping. Binding: Audio CD Dewey Decimal Number: 973.916 EAN: 9780061256431 Format: Audiobook, Unabridged ISBN: 0061256439 Label: HarperAudio Manufacturer: HarperAudio Number Of Items: 12 Publication Date: June 01, 2007 Publisher: HarperAudio Release Date: June 12, 2007 Sales Rank: 62480 Studio: HarperAudio Related Items: Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning The 5000 Year Leap: A Miracle That Changed the World The Christmas Sweater Economic Facts and Fallacies An Inconvenient Book: Real Solutions to the World's Biggest Problems see more Editorial Review: Product Description: 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. Customer Reviews Average Rating: Rating: - Good Book Gave this as a gift and haven't read myself, but the reader says it is well worth reading. Rating: - a "Must Read" This is a must read. Buy copies for your parents and for your kids. READ IT and spread the word. Rating: - Anti-Roosevelt nonsense Typical anti-Roosevelt polemic. For people who still think that Herbert Hoover was a victim of circumstance and that 1920's Republicanism had nothing to do with the Wall Street crash of 1929. In short, historical revisionism at its worst. Rating: - Timely New Look at New Deal Polls of historians credit FDR and the New Deal with ending The Great Depression while polls of economists credit World War II, according to Amity Shlaes, author of The Forgotten Man. This factoid is a reason while those who like to let data speak will generally appreciate this book while those who continue to hoist The New Deal on a pedestal will see Shlaes as heretical. This very timely book revisits the 1920s and 1930s through the eyes of both architects of the economy and those ... Read More Rating: - An Incomplete Analysis If you read "The Forgotten Man," please make sure that you also read "Since Yesterday," by Frederick Lewis Allen (New York, NY: Harper & Row, first published in 1939) and "Hard Times," by Studs Terkel (New York, NY: Random House, 1970). "The Forgotten Man" is not, as its subtitle says, "A New History of the Great Depression." Instead, it is an argument about what made the Great Depresion worse than it otherwise might have been. That is, it is less a comprehensive history than it is an effort ... Read More see more Browse for similar items by category: History - Books on CD - Audiobooks - Formats - Custom Stores - Specialty Stores - Books - United States Qualifying Textbooks - Custom Stores - Specialty Stores - Books - General AAS 20th Century - United States - Americas - History - Subjects - Books - Depression 20th Century - United States - Americas - History - Subjects - Books - General United States - Americas - History - Subjects - Books - General