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It's difficult today to assume how America survived the Great Depression. Only through the stories of the common people who struggled during that era can we really know how the country endured. In The Forgotten Man, Amity Shlaes 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 individual Americans, and shows that they helped establish the steadfast character we developed as a nation.Shlaes also traces the mounting agony of the New Dealers themselves as they uncovered their errors. She shows how both Presidents Hoover and Roosevelt failed to understand the prosperity of the 1920s and heaped massive burdens on the united states that more than offset the good thing about New Deal programs. The real question about the Depression, she argues, is not whether Roosevelt ended it with World War II. It really is why the Depression lasted such a long time. From 1929 to 1940, federal intervention helped to make the Depression great—partly by forgetting the men and women who sought to help each other. The Forgotten Man, offers a fresh look at one of the most crucial periods in our history, allowing us to comprehend the effectiveness of American character today.
