FDR's Folly How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression

Name: FDR's Folly How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression
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ISBN: 9781400054770

ISBN-10: 140005477X

ISBN-13: 9781400054770

Edition: 2005

Authors: Jim Powell

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This book pulls back the shroud of awe and the cloak of time enveloping FDR to prove convincingly how flawed his economic policies actually were, despite his good intentions and the astounding intellect of his circle of advisors.

Book details

List price: $20.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: The Crown Publishing Group
Publication date: 9/28/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.12" wide x 8.07" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English



Introduction



How Could Such Bright, Compassionate People Be Wrong?



What Caused the Great Depression?



What Did FDR Borrow from Hoover?



Why Did New Dealers Break Up the Strongest Banks?



Why Did FDR Seize Everybody's Gold?



Why Did FDR Triple Taxes During the Great Depression?



Why Was So Much New Deal Relief and Public Works Money Channeled Away from the Poorest People?



Why Didn't New Deal Securities Laws Help Investors Do Better?



Why Did New Dealers Make Everything Cost More in the Depression?



Why Did the New Dealers Destroy All That Food When People Were Hungry?



How Did the Tennessee Valley Authority Depress the Tennessee Economy?



Why Did the Supreme Court Strike Down Early New Deal Laws?



How Did Social Security Contribute to Higher Unemployment?



How Did New Deal Labor Laws Throw People Out of Work?



How Did FDR's Supreme Court Subvert Individual Liberty?



How Did New Deal Policies Cause the Depression of 1938?



Why Did New Deal Lawyers Disrupt Companies Employing Millions?



What Have Been the Effects of the New Deal Since the 1930s?



What Can We Learn from FDR's Mistakes?


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Acknowledgments


Index