The a new history of the Great Depression Shlaes, Amity Ruth 1960- creator text bibliography nyu New York HarperCollins Publishers c2007 2007 1st ed. monographic eng

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x, 464 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm. It's difficult today to imagine how America survived the Great Depression--only through the stories of the common people who struggled during that era can we really understand it. These people are at the heart of this reinterpretation of one of the most crucial events of the twentieth century. Author Shlaes presents the neglected and moving stories of individual Americans, and shows how through brave leadership they helped establish the steadfast character we developed as a nation. Shlaes also traces the mounting agony of the New Dealers themselves as they discovered their errors. She shows how both Hoover and Roosevelt failed to understand the prosperity of the 1920s and heaped massive burdens on the country that more than offset the benefit of New Deal programs. The real question about the Depression, she argues, is not whether Roosevelt ended it--it is why it lasted so long.--From publisher description. 1. The beneficent hand -- 2. The junket -- 3. The accident -- 4. The hour of the vallar -- 5. The experimenter -- 6. A river utopia -- 7. A year of prosecutions -- 8. The chicken verses the eagle -- 9. Roosevelt's wager -- 10. Mellon's gift -- 11. Roosevelt's revolution -- 12. The man in the Brooks Brothers shirt -- 13. Black Tuesday, again -- 14. "Brace up, America" -- 15. Willkie's wager -- Coda. Amity Shlaes. Includes bibliographical references (p. [415]-433) and index. n-us--- Depressions 1929 United States Crisis económica 1929- Estados Unidos Crisis financiera 1929- Estados Unidos New Deal, 1933-1939 Nuevo orden 1933-1939 United States History 1919-1933 United States History 1933-1945 United States Social conditions 1933-1945 United States Economic conditions 1918-1945 Estados Unidos Historia 1933-1945 Estados Unidos Condiciones económicas 1918-1945 Estados Unidos Condiciones sociales 1933-1945 002 E 806 S558f 2007 973.91/6 0066211700 (acidfree paper) 9780066211701 (acidfree paper) 2006049761 DLC 061006 20230411090825.0 14585786