The Forgotten Man: A New History Of The Great Depression by Amity Shlaes
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
This is an occasionally dry but largely enlightening of the Great Depression. Focus is on threads as the birth of AA (somewhat seemingly dissimilar), Bonus Army, the reign of Rooselvelt, the Wendell Willkie failure to launch, Grapes of Wrath/The Joads, the troughing effect of being sandwiched by World Wars ... Often the text wanders into textbook-like history details. Most interesting to me is what arose then in the dark days of the Depression that today would seem wildly socialist endeavors that would be too much to consider during an election year, let alone stock market crash: Social Security (paying into without receiving anything), NRA government price control, farming subsidies, currency re-valuation (off the gold standard), etc.
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