[Capitalism2003]

Every Freeper needs to BUY THIS BOOK! FDR's Folly: How Roosevelt and his New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression

[Timocrat]

Every Freeper needs to BUY THIS BOOK! FDR's Folly: How Roosevelt and his New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression

This is a must read for anybody to understand FDR. What is paticulaly revealing is how FDR used the new Federal programs he introduced to ensure his re-election. He funneled money into programs in the marginal contituencies rather than those that needed it the most. The author also provides clear evidence that programs such as the TVA actually stunted economic developement rather than promoted it.

Another emphatic NO!

[logician2u]

An excellent book. Even Rush Limbaugh had good things to say about it, IIRC.

You'll also enjoy reading Lawrence Reed's article, "Great Myths of the Great Depression," posted here long, long ago by a FReeper who is greatly missed for his thoroughly researched contributions to this forum.

The natural tendency among Republicans is to blame Roosevelt for all that went wrong from 1929 on, but Reed shows that much of the groundwork for the New Deal had been laid during the Hoover administration. Roosevelt just added to it, with the connivance of a Democrat-controlled Congress.