This book offers a striking reinterpretation of the Great Depression.

Amity Shlaes of Bloomberg News and the Council on Foreign Relations delivered the April Bradley Lecture.

The campaigns for the presidential election of 2008 have begun, and they already reflect an old political challenge. Whether Democrat or Republican, candidates must address the same dilemma: on the one hand, voters have enormous...

Presidential candidates may want to be careful as they climb onto FDR's shoulders. The New Deal edifice may look solid, but it doesn't form a good basis for the American future.

It is time for the United States to return to the principles of classical liberalism.

Neither Herbert Hoover nor Franklin D. Roosevelt promulgated policies that worked.

The Forgotten Man grasps the meaning, realities, and particularities of the Great Depression as no revisionist text has ever done.

There is significant evidence that the arbitrariness of New Deal economic policy made the Great Depression worse. Policymakers today should eschew this uncertainty and chart a clearly defined course.

Amity Shlaes' The Forgotten Man is useful in understanding the Great Depression, New Deal, and serious policy errors of the time.