New Deal or Raw Deal?: How FDR's Economic Legacy Has Damaged America »

Burton W. Folsom is a professor of history at Hillsdale College in Michigan and senior historian at the Foundation for Economic Education in Irvington, New York. He is a regular columnist for The Freeman and has written articles for The Wall Street Journal and American Spectator, among other publications. He lives in Michigan.

A sharply critical new look at Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency reveals government policies that hindered economic recovery from the Great Depression—and 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

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