[nonliberal]

I am two chapters into this book right now. Thoroughly enjoyable.

[kublia khan]

PING FOR LATER

[The Forgotten Man]

Trust me, a must read if you really want to get some keen insight into what drives the modern day democrats. If you want to further your understanding, followup with another enlightening book, “Blacklisted by History, The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against Americas Enemies”. It is a long read at 600+ pages but, well worth the time invested IMHO....

[spanalot]

http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/6315/fdr.html

FDR was a blood thirsty socialist.

[BufordP]

After Words: Amity Shlaes, author of "The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression" interviewed by Nick Gillespie

[donmeaker]

Don’t forget Wallace, FDR’s vice president was a Communist Agent. Later he ran himself against Truman in 1948 on the Progressive ticket.

Did FDR know? Probably, given the code breaking activity documented in the Venona files. I can just imagine Joe Stalin salivating over old and sick FDR when the VP was a agent of International Communism.

That is how close we were to losing the Cold War.

[Fiji Hill]

The Forgotten Man is the latest in a series of revisionist books on the Depression. Others include Rethinking the Great Depression by Gene Smiley, FDR's Folly--How Roosevelt and his New Deal Prolonged the Depression by Jim Powell, and 33 Questions About American History You're Not Supposed to Ask by Thomas E. Woods.

[iopscusa]

Wakeup call! FDR’s economic & political fascism is very likely what we can expect from an Obama presidency!
Amity Shlaes’s The Forgotten Man is a careful, even-tempered, and much needed corrective to this sorry history of FDR: “FDR was economically incompetent, as Shlaes demonstrates, but he was politically ingenious. Indeed, as she and others have chronicled, FDR’s economic missteps were part of a larger political ballet. He transformed American politics by creating vast client constituencies who depended on the government—and by extension the Roosevelt Administration—for their livelihood. Such an enterprise stemmed first and foremost from a philosophical vision, not a mere economic one. FDR’s economic policies, like his political maneuvering in general, were means to an end. Recommitting liberalism to the doctrine of a “living constitution” pioneered by Woodrow Wilson, the New Dealers believed that the Constitution could be reinterpreted on the fly, to create a new open-ended constitutionalism that depended not on texts, but on the will of those in charge of interpreting them. “I want to assure you,” FDR’s aide Harry Hopkins told an audience of New Deal activists in New York, “that we are not afraid of exploring anything within the law, and we have a lawyer who will declare anything you want to do legal.”