[kylaka]

Read the book “FDR’s Folly” if you really want to know how bad FDR’s administration was, and how his policies actually made a 3 year recession into a 12 year depression. Be sure to thank ole Franklin when you get your first Social Security check and find it won’t even cover one months property tax.

[Fiji Hill]

As for books on the Depression, I would recommend Rethinking the Great Depression by Gene Smiley (Dee, 2003), an insightful yet highly readable analysis of the Depression that is less than 200 pages long, and The Forgotten Man by Amity Shlaes (Harper Collins, 2007), a current bestseller.

[Non-Sequitur]

Read the book “FDR’s Folly” if you really want to know how bad FDR’s administration was, and how his policies actually made a 3 year recession into a 12 year depression.

Huh? The 'recession' was well into its third year when Hoover left office. And if you call 25% unemployment, widespread hunger, homelessness, backrupt cities and school systems, and a banking system teetering on the edge of total collapes a 'recession' then either you have never read up on the times or you have no idea what a depression is.