- Published: 1 September 2009
- ISBN: 9780712639965
- Imprint: Pimlico
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 496
- RRP: $52.00
The Forgotten Man
A New History of the Great Depression
- Published: 1 September 2009
- ISBN: 9780712639965
- Imprint: Pimlico
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 496
- RRP: $52.00
Readers have waited eagerly for this book for decades. Amity Shlaes has delivered it
Paul Johnson
Amity Shlaes not only manages to keep you wide awake, she also sets your blood to boiling. Even if you don't always agree with her conclusions, she defines the debate over what we ought to do and gets you thinking constructively about the problems she identifies
New York Times
With cool analysis enlivened by vivid vignettes in a compelling narrative, Amity Shlaes retrieves the epithet stolen and turned on its head by Franklin Roosevelt. The Forgotten Man is an incisive and controversial history of the Great Depression that challenges much of the received wisdom and does it with brio and scholarship. Amity Shlaes takes no prisoners
Harold Evans
Amity Shlaes' brilliant and highly readable book surely must be the best analysis of the Great Depression ever
Washington Times
That rare thing - an original, readable, compelling book about economic depression and how politicians can make things worse. The Forgotten Man by Amity Shlaes is a counterintuitive study of the Wall Street Crash and how politics turned chaos into crisis
The Times
Combines the lively narrative style of a first-rate journalist with the careful scholarship of a born historian. But her book is much more than an enjoyable narrative. It is a highly original reinterpretation that turns the received wisdom about the Depression on its head
Sunday Telegraph
The Forgotten Man is an engaging read and a welcome corrective to the popular view of Roosevelt and his New Deal... illuminating
Financial Times