America's Great Depression by Murray N. Rothbard
My rating: 2 of 5 stars
This book is very misleading in title and cover. Admittedly, I wanted some disaster porn: Hoovervilles, bread lines, and Wall Street fat cats jumping from windows. Now, I feel like I was sold a Hustler to find it was just a cover glued onto a copy of The Economist. The actual Great Depression is a side bar to this screed on Hoover-Roosevelt (government actions can be variously socialist and fascist) and fractional banking. Like a wild-eyed radical this work, which never should have been an audiobook given all the tables, extols the Austrian School of economics as dogma and yearns nostalgically for the gold standard.
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