"The Forgotten Man" by: Amity Shlaes (1/5)

Amity Shlaes
Syndicated columnist for Bloomberg

Speaking on:
The Forgotten Man

Monday October 29, 2007

On October 29, 1929, better known "Black Tuesday," the U.S. stock market crashed, leading to the Great Depression and the New Deal. The best-known accounts of the period are sympathetic to FDR and the New Deal, but highly critical of the businessmen, bankers, and Republican presidents of the 1920's, whom they blame for the collapse.

With The Forgotten Man, syndicated Bloomberg columnist Amity Shlaes has written an authoritative, original, and utterly engrossing account of the Great Depression and the New Deal, talking no prisoners as she challenges much of the received wisdom about the era.

Forget what you think you know about the Great Depression and the New Deal. Join us on the anniversary of Black Tuesday for a fascinating and gripping talk about the Great Depression by one of today's leading historians on Twentieth Century finance.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Great Depression
• FDR
• Big Government
• Roosevelt Myth
• Economic History
• Sick Chicken Case