Amity Shlaes' The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression reveals that Hoover's seemingly humane actions perversely worsened the crisis.
Capital went "on strike, " as Amity Shlaes wrote in The Forgotten Man.
In her magnificent (and prescient) book The Forgotten Man Amity Shlaes creates a useful metaphor that is easy to grasp and explains a lot.
Thankfully, Folsom's book and such others as Amity Shlaes' The Forgotten Man and Jim Powell's FDR's Folly: How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression are convincingly setting the record straight.
It is often forgotten that the man who wants a Lib Dem revival almost as much as Clegg goes by the name of Cameron.
Bob Gwynne, associate curator of rail vehicles at the National Railway Museum in York - where the engine 'Flying Scotsman' is being restored - said the famous train came about because of one forgotten man.
Bill Clinton, on his recent visit to Moscow, paid former Russian president Boris Yeltsin a private visit that carried with it a very public message: though Yeltsin may have left political life, the man who brought democracy to Russia is hardly forgotten.
In a new book, Clerizo chronicles the life and work of a man that should not be forgotten.
For both groups, the fact that Manzano, who holds dual citizenship, made a decision to show off the flags of both countries was a kind of signal to the people of Mexico that this accomplished young man hadn't forgotten where he came from.
The benefits dished out in the early months, such as income-tax cuts and bigger pay-outs for children and sickness, were soon forgotten, leaving the impression that the government was harshly intent only on clobbering the little man by holding back pension and welfare increases to stay in line with inflation, while giving hand-outs to business via corporate tax cuts.
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