Re: [Pen-l] Blame FDR for the Depression??

[Dan Zale <danzale2000@xxxxxxxxx>]

> Amity Shlaes, a syndicated columnist who works at the Council on
> Foreign Relations, helped ignite this latest revisionist spurt with
> her 2007 book, âThe Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great
> Depression.â

Eric Rauchway has some useful thing to say about Shlaes

Stop lying about Rooseveltâs record.
http://edgeofthewest.wordpress.com/2008/11/06/stop-lying-about-roosevelts-record/

Please read before posting
http://edgeofthewest.wordpress.com/2008/11/07/please-read-before-posting/

When is it lying?
http://edgeofthewest.wordpress.com/2008/11/07/when-is-it-lying/

> This week competing theories about the Depression and the New Deal
> were once again on display at a conference at the Council on Foreign
> Relationsâ New York headquarters, co-hosted by the Leonard N. Stern
> School of Business at New York University, and partly organized by Ms.
> Shlaes.

>From Brad DeLong:
"The speaker's list for the Council on Foreign Relations "A Second Look at the Great Depression" conference on March 30 is out, and it is a doozy--even the Heritage Foundation would never have dared to put forward a speaker's list so partisan, so biased, and with so few speakers with more than an inch-deep knowledge of the Great Depression."

http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2009/03/great-depression-revisionism-blogging-the-council-on-foreign-relations-crashes-and-burns-in-real-time.html







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