Authors: Burton Folsom Jr., Alan Sklar
ISBN-13: 9781400182640, ISBN-10: 1400182646
Format: MP3 Book
Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc.
Date Published: June 2009
Edition: Unabridged
ALAN SKLAR has narrated over 75 audiobooks and earned numerous awards for his work. He has also provided the voice for thousands of corporate and medical videos, as well as many radio and TV commercials. He lives with his wife in New York.
A sharply critical new look at Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency reveals government policies that hindered economic recovery from the Great Depressionand that are still hurting America today.
Chapter 1 The Making of the Myth: FDR and the New Deal
Chapter 2 FDR's Rise to Power: Political Skill, Ambition, and Deception
Chapter 3 What Caused the Great Depression?
Chapter 4 The NRA: Why Price-Fixing Damaged American Business
Chapter 5 The AAA: How It Hurt Farming
Chapter 6 Relief and the WPA: Did They Really Help the Unemployed?
Chapter 7 More Public Programs That Fell Short: The Air Mail Act, FERA Camps, and TVA
Chapter 8 Financial Interference: Manipulation of Gold and Silver Markets, Tariffs, Stocks, and Banks
Chapter 9 Safety Net or Quagmire? Minimum Wage, Social Security, and Labor Relations
Chapter 10 No Free Ride: The Burden of Excise, Income, and Corporate Taxes
Chapter 11 The IRS: FDR's Personal Weapon
Chapter 12 Patronage Transformed: The Elections of 1934 and 1936
Chapter 13 FDR Stumbles: Court Packing, the Purge, and the Issue of Race
Chapter 14 How FDR's Deception Tarnished the Presidency Forever
Chapter 15 What FDR Should Have Done: Cut Spending, Tax Rates, and the Tariff
Chapter 16 What Finally Did End the Great Depression?
Chapter 17 Why Historians Have Missed the Mark
Chapter 18 The New Deal and Repercussions for Today's Economy
Notes
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Index