![]() ![]() Finally, she traces the mounting agony of the New Dealers themselves. She takes a fresh look at the great scapegoats of the period, from Andrew Mellon to Sam Insull of Chicago. In this illuminating work of history, Shlaes follows the struggles of those now forgotten people, from a family of butchers in Brooklyn who dealt a stunning blow to the New Deal, to Bill W., who founded Alcoholics Anonymous, and Father Divine, a black cult leader. From 1929 to 1940, federal intervention helped to make the Depression great by forgetting the men and women who sought to help themselves. 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. ![]() ![]() From one of America's most respected economic commentators comes a fresh new interpretation of a crucial yet widely misunderstood moment in American history - the Great DepressionĬhallenging conventional history, Amity Shlaes offers a striking reinterpretation of the Great Depression that devastated America in the early part of the twentieth century. ![]()
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