Authoritative, original, and utterly engrossing, The Forgotten Man offers an entirely new look at one of the most important periods in our history. It can even be argued that one year-1936-created the modern entitlement challenge that so bedevils both parties only. From 1929 to 1940, federal intervention helped to make the Depression greatin part by forgetting the men and women who sought to help one another.
It is no coincidence that the first peacetime year in American history in which federal spending outpaced the total spending of the states and towns was that election year of 1936. Impact of the Great Depression The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression, written by Amity Shlaes, gives a lengthy detail of the Great. The president made groups where only individual citizens or isolated cranks had stood before, ministered to those groups, and was rewarded with votes. But Roosevelt systematized interest-group politics more generally to include many constituencies-labor, senior citizens, farmers, union workers. ORIGINALLY RECORDED May 30, 2007Watch Amity Shlaes, the Councils visiting senior fellow for geoeconomics, discuss her new book, The Forgotten Man: A New His. The idea that such groups might find mainstream parties to support them was not novel either: Republicans, including the Harding and Coolidge administrations, had long practiced interest-group politics on behalf of big business. The idea that Americans might form a political group that demanded something from government was well known and thoroughly reported a century earlier by Alexis de Tocqueville. “Roosevelt won because he created a new kind of interest-group politics.
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