[LS]

Yep-—dealt with most of these in both the Melow/Coolidge and Reagan years in my book “48 Liberal Lies About American History.”

[LS]

Melow=Mellon. can’t type on a laptop.

[griswold3]

I hope you included a chapter comparing/contrasting the liberal top down vs the conservative bottom up policy.
Those who are ignorant of history are bound to repeat it. Ray Moley, FDR brain trust member wrote of the New Deal:

“the rejection of the traditional Wilson-Brandeis philosophy
that if America could once more become a nation of small
proprietors, of corner grocers and smithies under spreading chestnut
trees, we should have solved the problems of American life. We agreed
that the heart of our difficulty was the anarchy of concentrated economic
po”ver which, like a cannon loose on a frigate’s deck, tore from
one side to another, crushing those in its path. But we felt that the
remedy for this was not to substitute muskets for cannon or to throw
the cannon overboard. We believed that any attempt to atomize big
business must destroy America’s greatest contribution to a higher
standard of living for the body of its citizenry-the development of
mass production. We agreed that equality of opportunity must be preserved.
But we recognized that competition, as such, was not inherently
virtuous; that competition (when it was embodied in an employer who
survived only by sweating his labor, for example) created as many
abuses as it prevented. So we turned from the nostalgic philosophy of
the “trust busters” toward the solution first broached in modern times
by Charles Richard Van Hise’s Concentration and Control.”

[Entrepreneur]

Coolidge does not get his due. He may have been the greatest president this side of Washington. The contrast in policies and results between Harding/Coolidge and Hoover/Roosevelt could not be more different. While you're certainly aware of it, I would suggest others read The Forgotten Depression and then follow up with one or more of your books.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Mellon’s budget restraints in the 1920, Kennedy’s tax cuts in the 1960’s, Reagan’s deep cuts in the mid-1980’s, Bush II’s cuts in 2002-2003 ... They ALL led to long economic growth periods and net increases in tax income.

What is much overlooked are the small Soviet tax “cuts” that did the same:

- Under Lenin in the very early 1920’s (before he started the disastrous 5-year plans) that pulled that nation up from the WWI/Revolution stagnation;
- Stalin’s “privatization” and “family vegetable plots” (after the state-caused collectivization famines in 1932-36) were what saved the rest of Soviet Russia from disaster, and what fed it during WWII;
-Khrushchev tax cuts after Stalin’s death restarted a stagnant economy and allowed him to rebuild the Cold War military that threatened the world from 1960 through 1975. Until those cuts, he had little more than the huge rusting WWII weapons, and a handful of nuclear bombs. After? Billions of rubles to design, build (and copy!) the latest new machinery.