books about: 1929     books:       The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression133 reviews Amity Shlaes Harper Perennial, 2008 The Forgotten Man The Forgotten Man is the best book I've ever read on the subject of the '29 Crash and subsequent depression. If you really want to learn about what really happened in this country nearly 80 years ago and how many of the Roosevelt policies exascerbated and prolonged the situation, this is the book for you. I highly recommend it to anyone interested in that momentous period in American history, ...             Rethinking the Great Depression (American Ways Series)9 reviews Gene Smiley Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 2003 new look at country's worst crisis Based on new theories, Smiley has re-examined and re-assessed the forces that led to and prolonged the Great Depression. In clear non-technical prose, he shows what happened and why. This short book (163 pages plus sources and index) is divided into five chapters. Chapter 1 gives a brief overview of how the worldwide depression began and how it created a domino effect throughout Europe and the ...             Essays on the Great Depression8 reviews Ben S. Bernanke Princeton University Press, 2004 Rigorous and Authoritative. The Best Book on Great Depression Economics Bernanke rigorously explains the economics of the Great Depression. A massive monetary contraction (reduction in the money supply) was the cause of the Great Depression, in large part due to the flawed gold standard that was created following World War One. The massive banking collapse (due to weak regulation) further worsened the disaster. To a lesser extent, the Smoot-Hawley tarriff contributed ...             Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt2 reviews H.W. Brands Doubleday, 2008 Master Historian's FDR Biography Receives Strong Reviews Franklin Roosevelt led the Allies to victory in World War Two after tackling the economic crisis of the Great Depression. This book by master historian H.W. Brands has received strong early reviews. (I will include my own review once I finish reading it.) KIRKUS REVIEWS said that this book "will likely be the go-to popular biography for quite some time... a thoroughly readable, scrupulously ...             The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl (Edition 001)187 reviews Timothy Egan Mariner Books, 2006 A healthy reminder of how easy we have it. Save for the descriptions of dust and dirt, which get a little tiring, this book is a great read. His writing style is very readable and his research and understanding of the material is obvious. It is a good lesson for these times we live in. Perhaps we could use some of the wisdom of those times to understand what we need to do to cure our environmental and economic ills.             The Great Crash of 192947 reviews John Kenneth Galbraith Mariner Books, 1997 Relevant Again - and Readable as Always Galbraith wrote The Great Crash in 1954 and he notes in his introduction that every time it was about to go out-of-print a new speculative mania would come along and a new printing would issue. One expects that the 2008 version must be in the works. Galbraith writes for the general audience, which means he not only leaves out most of the arcane details, but he also writes in an engaging ...             Water for Elephants: A Novel1501 reviews Sara Gruen Algonquin Books, 2007 wonderful and entertaining The main character I can sympathize with and can appreciate. You can really imagine what it would be like to be in his shoes in this book. It does a great job of explaining what that particular circus was like back then. I couldn't really picture it until I was able to read the book. Im glad I read it. No complaints! Especially if you love animals!!!             Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression16 reviews Studs Terkel W. W. Norton & Company, 2000 gives voices to those who lived through the Depression As a former grad student in History, I found this book fascinating. Author Studs Terkel interviews people who lived through the Depression and gets their takes on that difficult period. We hear the experiences and memories of those who lived through it from multiple points of view. The book was published in 1970 and much of the research was accordingly done during the second half of the '60s ...             The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope37 reviews Jonathan Alter Simon & Schuster, 2007 Great First 100 Days The most interesting book on FDR I've ever read. I learned a lot more about the state of our nation when FDR was elected and what FDR did to keep our republic on a more democratic path. I'm sure our new President-elect and his staff are reading this book so they can learn how to make great things happen in Washington in only 100 days.             Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression92 reviews Mildred Armstrong Kalish Bantam, 2008 Excellent memoir Little Heathens by Millie Kalish is a wonderful book about the author's life on an Iowa farm in the 1930's. She makes the setting and times come alive and I especially enjoyed getting a glimpse of my parent's generation and what their childhood might have been like. The values she was taught as a child enabled her to become a member of the armed forces, go to college and become a college ...             The Great Contraction, 1929-1933: (New Edition) (Princeton Classic Editions)2 reviews Milton Friedman Princeton University Press, 2008 A timely document In these days, in which we are discussing and fighting over the issue of the financial crisis, nothing is better than this chapter of Milton Friedman "Banking History" which reviews carefully and seriously the causes resulting in The Great Contraction 1929-1933, and sent the world into the greatest depression of modern times. Men who do not know history are bound to repete the errors of the past. ...             The Great Depression: America 1929-194117 reviews Robert S. Mcelvaine Three Rivers Press, 1993 New Deal as Seen from the Reagan Era This book was written in 1983, in the early years of Ronald Reagan's presidency. It's very interesting to see how angry the Reagan fans are at reading it. Biased! they cry, and so it is... forthrightly biased against Reagan, but intelligently skeptical toward the alleged success of Keynsian solutions to the Depression. Critics of FDR today seem widely to assume that the New Deal was strictly a ...             The Great Depression and the New Deal: A Very Short Introduction: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short ...2 reviews Eric Rauchway Oxford University Press, USA, 2008 Excellent Concise Overview As a concise overview, this book is excellent. Rauchway covers the background of the Great Depression, its onset, and the major features of the New Deal in less than 130 pages of this small book. Rauchway presents the Great Depression as essentially a vicious downward economic cycle made possible by the destruction of the pre-WWI economic system, the nature of the postwar political/economic ...             Arnie & Jack: Palmer, Nicklaus, and Golf's Greatest Rivalry13 reviews Ian O'Connor Houghton Mifflin, 2008 "A Classic Work with the Most Riveting of Personal Moments" Good book, great book on two of golf's greatest names, greatest players and greatest guys...This book is "a keeper," giving a dynamic inside look at the personalities and competitive instincts of both men. The reader comes to a new and deeper appreciation and understanding of the two golfing giants of our time. Ian O'Connor takes the easy way out in some of the writing at times, but the story ...             New Deal or Raw Deal?: How FDR's Economic Legacy Has Damaged America Burton W., Jr. Folsom Threshold Editions, 2008 A sharply critical new look at Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency reveals government policies that hindered economic recovery from the Great Depression -- and are still hurting America today. In this shocking and groundbreaking new book, economic historian Burton W. Folsom exposes the idyllic legend of Franklin D. Roosevelt as a myth of epic proportions. With questionable moral character and a vendetta against the business elite, Roosevelt ...             Mona Lisa in Camelot: How Jacqueline Kennedy and Da Vinci's Masterpiece Charmed and Captivated a Nation2 reviews Margaret Leslie Davis Da Capo Press, 2008 Engrossing and charming This was a very engrossing account of how the Mona Lisa made it to the United States for public viewing during Camelot. The details of Jacqueline Kennedy's plan and the implementation of that plan were extremely interesting as I was a child of the sixties (but sadly did not live near D.C. to view the Mona Lisa). I was also fascinated with the First Lady's mutually adoring relationship with the ...             The World in Depression, 1929-1939, Revised and Enlarged edition (History of the World Economy in the ...1 review Charles P. Kindleberger University of California Press, 1986 Benchmark Study of the Causes of the Great Depression This book is outstanding at describing the economics of the Great Depression. In his time, Kindleberger was regarded by many as the highest authority on the economics of the Great Depression. He also was a regular economist of the highest order. (Check out his other books.) This book is outstanding analysis of the Great Depression. Kindleberger explains that the reason for the Depression was ...             How to Be Lovely: The Audrey Hepburn Way of Life14 reviews Melissa Hellstern Dutton Adult, 2004 The Ultimate Guide to Loveliness, Both Inside and Out. A lot of people misuse the term "hero." Lots of people think it's an athlete, an actor, or a singer. I regard Audrey Hepburn as my hero and a great role model. She was a rare and unusually timeless beauty with her gamine looks and a gorgeous accent, often mistaken as British, that also belied part of her time in Nazi occupied Holland. With the grace of a dancer and a princess to add to her ...             The Coming of the New Deal, 1933-1935 (The Age of Roosevelt, Vol. 2)2 reviews Jr.", Arthur M. "Schlesinger Mariner Books, 2003 Franklin Roosevelt: A Great Man Arthur M. Schlesinger wrote a Pulitzer Prize winning series on "The Age of Roosevelt" almost a half-century ago. This volume is the middle volume of that trilogy, covering the period 1933-1935. In assessing Roosevelt's role only a generation removed from the activity itself, Schlesinger chose to utilize Plutarch's approach of evaluating the man and his character to see how history developed. ...             Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 (Oxford History of the United States)66 reviews David M. Kennedy Oxford University Press, USA, 2001 An Iluminating Book I've never read a book this long (858 pp) before for pleasure, but I found the Freedom book so illuminating. I am 87 yr old and the book covers my youth, from age 8 to 23--and oh, did I experience personally the depression and the war! It was good to fill in the details and understanding of things where I had fragmentary but profound experiences. 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