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Description
In The Forgotten Man , Amity Shlaes, one of the nation's most-respected economic commentators, offers a striking reinterpretation of the Great Depression. She traces the mounting agony of the New Dealers and the moving stories of individual citizens who through their brave perseverance helped... read more
Cast of Characters/Important People
- Franklin Roosevelt: Add a description of this character.
- Irving Fisher
- Wendell Willkie
- Father Coughlin
- Frances Perkins
- George Warren Harding
- Henry Cantwell
- Al Smith
- Harold Ickes
- Teddy Roosevelt
- Ray Moley
- Theodore Roosevelt
- Robert Dunn
- Hitler
- John Maynard Keynes
- Roger Baldwin
- Douglas MacArthur
- David Lilienthal
- Calvin Coolidge
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- Aaron Schechter
- Joseph Stalin
- Henry Morgenthau
- Herbert Hoover
- Sara Roosevelt
Memorable Quotes
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“Deflation taxes risk takers and punishes leveragers”
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“Invest in the private sector, do not intervene too much, wait silently, and the returns would be all the greater”
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“Power resources generally were too important to stay in the private sector”
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“That is, waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both”
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“We are beginning to wipe out the line that divides the practical from the ideal; and in so doing we are fashioning an instrument of unimagined power for the establishment of a morally better world”
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Authors & Contributors
- Amity Shlaes (Author)
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