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 enlarge | Author: Amity Shlaes
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Category: Book
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Rating:  168 reviews
Sales Rank: 162
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 512
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.2 x 1.2
ISBN: 0060936428
Dewey Decimal Number: 973.916
EAN: 9780060936426
ASIN: 0060936428
Publication Date: June 1, 2008
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 Pull in the Reins November 17, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a good book, but seems almost too detailed. The author discusses meetings, letters and events that sometimes have little to no bearing on the subject.
 We don't need to repeat the mistakes of the past November 16, 2008
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is a great book and it is an especially important read today. Shlaes shows how Hoover's and FDR's policies pushed a recession into a depression. She shows how FDR's policies kept the country in a depression for over eight years. She ends the book as WWII was beginning. If it wasn't for the war who knows how long the depression would have gone. Although conditions today are nowhere near as bad as the great depression, many of the policies being put forth by our leaders are disturbingly similar to FDR's foolish policies of the 1930's. With Obama set to take us down the path of protectionism, unionization, and punitive tax rates, will he cause a bad recession to deepen as FDR did? Every American should read this book today. We don't need to make the same mistakes as were made in the 1930's.
Perfect for our current economic situation November 16, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
The parallels between then and now are amazing. This book can help us understand where we are and where we might go.
 Skewed Corporate Propaganda November 16, 2008
24 out of 56 found this review helpful
As a Great Depression buff (an avidity brought about by our current economic troubles) I wish-listed this book a year ago. Finally, I decided I had waited long enough and bought it, eagerly awaiting its arrival. The day it came, I jumped into it, laying aside a weekend to read it. By 10 am Saturday, I was concerned. The book seemed to tendentiously side with the Bankers and Industrialists while naysaying everything FDR's New Deal had seemed to be. Schlaes cast New Deal imagery as nothing more than Leftist hagiography and the FDR administration as riddled by communists, fascists and Nazis (and how such a rogues gallery of conflicting ideologies could have operated in a single White House I have not the foggiest). Suffice it to say that by lunchtime, I could take not another page and instead of reading the book, googled Amity Schlaes.
I think now she is the reincarnation of Ayn Rand. Now, for those who hold to Rand's theory of Objectivism, you'll love it (Rand of course was an ardent Nazi), but those who hove closer to Objective Reality and the facts and getting beyond Corporate propaganda are going to be SORELY disappointed. This book is nothing more than revisionism and a repackaging of the Corporate criticisms espoused at the time by the DuPonts and others who hated the fact the Average American was set to get a New Deal. Schlaes consistently cites the DOW JONES INDUSTRIAL AVERAGE as a thermometer of the economy when any seriously economic-minded person knows THE STOCK MARKET IS NOT THE ECONOMY. Lately, in fact, the Stock Market has tended to be the anti-economy, functioning to damage and perhaps ultimately obliterate the real economy as anti-matter does to matter. Using bogus, cherry picked stats, Schlaes weaves the typical, alternate reality of the corporatists and right wing and for those of us in the 'reality-based community' it is a tome of odious timbre. I will be looking for a more accurate and centrist discussion of the Great Depression's fall out and would appreciate any who can point me in that direction.
A Valuable Lesson from History November 16, 2008
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
I bought this book because I had heard when I was a young man 60+ years ago, the government would be giving away money before it would let us slip into another great depression. Since that is now happening, I wanted to get an idea of what might be headed our way based on the last great disaster. This book, very well written, gives an excellent narrative about those events and what one might expect. I'm not yet completely through it but from the half way point, I highly recommend reading this book. It is very readable and I'm enjoying it emensely.
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