The Forgotten Man - A New History of the Great Depression

Informationen zum Autor Amity Shlaes is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in economic history. She is also a syndicated columnist for Bloomberg . She has written for the Financial Times and the Wall Street Journal , where she was an editorial board member. Over the years her work has appeared in The New Yorker , Fortune , Forbes , National Review , the New Republic , Foreign Affairs and both the Spectator and the American Spectator . While preparing this book she served as JP Morgan fellow at the American Academy in Berlin. Shlaes is the author of The Greedy Hand and Germany: The Empire Within . Klappentext In this illuminating work of history, Shlaes follows the struggles of those now forgotten people, from a family of butchers in Brooklyn who dealt a stunning blow to the New Deal, to Bill W., who founded Alcoholics Anonymous, and Father Divine, a black cult leader. Zusammenfassung In this illuminating work of history, Shlaes follows the struggles of those now forgotten people, from a family of butchers in Brooklyn who dealt a stunning blow to the New Deal, to Bill W., who founded Alcoholics Anonymous, and Father Divine, a black cult leader.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Amity Shlaes, Shlaes Amity
• Editore: Pimlico
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 02.07.2009
• EAN: 9780712639965
• ISBN: 978-0-7126-3996-5
• Pagine: 496
• Dimensioni: 153 mm x 234 mm x 35 mm
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Storia dei paesi e delle regioni; USA, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Macroeconomics, United States of America, USA, c 1920 to c 1929, General and world history, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), Poverty and precarity, 1929 to c 1939 (period of the Great Depression)