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The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression
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Mediocre Scholarship, Party Line Polemic
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When does pointing a revisionist finger at Political Correctness become a yet more rigid form of ideology? Read The Forgotten Man and find out!
Author Amity Shlaes is a journalist with extensive credits for work with the Wall Street Journal. By her own acknowledgement, she has added not a whit to the historiography of the Great Depression, but rather a revisionist interpretation that starts from the the desired conclusions and pats the facts in place to make the interpretation appear free-standing. As a journalist, she knows how to divert her readers in both senses - diversion as entertainment and diversion as deception. Thus she regales us with colorful vignettes and sketches of the foibles of the significant figures of the era.
Her conclusion is mothing more than the standard party line of Reaganites, that the New Deal was totally ineffectual and may even have delayed economic recovery, that World War II ended the Great Depression, that FDR's economic advisors were naive idiots, and the FDR's administration leaned toward tyranny. I'd love to read an intelligently written book, based on more than secondary sources, which presented a basis for those conclusions - if there is any basis - but this is not such a book. This is a preachment to the hyper-capitalist choir. |
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