03934cam a2200373 4500 238066731 TxAuBib 20140808120000.0 ||||||s2007||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780061472961 0061472964 b18e4cdc-69c7-4209-bf52-49958d204081 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 134139 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Shlaes, Amity. The Forgotten Man [Bridges Audiobook] : A New History of the Great Depression. HarperCollins, 2007. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 401MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 401MB. HTML: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. 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 how 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 Presidents 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 with World War II. It is why the Depression lasted so long. From 1929 to 1940, federal intervention helped to make the Depression great - in part by forgetting the men and women who sought to help one another. The Forgotten Man, offers a new look at one of the most important periods in our history, allowing us to understand the strength of American character today.. Terence Aselford does an excellent job with Shlaes's revisionist account of the Great Depression. He narrates in a lively manner and manages to maintain clarity during the author's interesting, but lengthy, digressions. Listeners will meet many men, and some women, who were once household names but are now hardly remembered, including New Dealers Tugwell, Perkins, Wallace, and Wendel Willke, who ran for president against Roosevelt in 1940. Shlaes interweaves informative mini-biographies of these and many of the period's major political characters, forming a reconsideration of the causes of the Great Depression and the relative effectiveness of the New Deal. This is a genuinely interesting story well told. R.E.K. (c) AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine. AudioFile Magazine. Nonfiction. History. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2015-08-06 14:05:02. Aselford, Terence. ©2007 by Amity Shlaes. http://bridges.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=b18e4cdc-69c7-4209-bf52-49958d204081 http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-25/0293-1/134139-TheForgottenMan.wma Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/0293-1/134139-TheForgottenMan.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) http://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=B18E4CDC-69C7-4209-BF52-49958D204081&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-25/0293-1/134139-TheForgottenMan.wma Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/0293-1/134139-TheForgottenMan.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) http://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=B18E4CDC-69C7-4209-BF52-49958D204081&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)