> Amity Shlaes, a syndicated columnist who works at the Council on > Foreign Relations, helped ignite this latest revisionist spurt with > her 2007 book, “The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great > Depression.”
Eric Rauchway has some useful thing to say about Shlaes Stop lying about Roosevelt’s record. http://edgeofthewest.wordpress.com/2008/11/06/stop-lying-about-roosevelts-record/ Please read before posting http://edgeofthewest.wordpress.com/2008/11/07/please-read-before-posting/ When is it lying? http://edgeofthewest.wordpress.com/2008/11/07/when-is-it-lying/ > This week competing theories about the Depression and the New Deal > were once again on display at a conference at the Council on Foreign > Relations’ New York headquarters, co-hosted by the Leonard N. Stern > School of Business at New York University, and partly organized by Ms. > Shlaes. >From Brad DeLong: "The speaker's list for the Council on Foreign Relations "A Second Look at the Great Depression" conference on March 30 is out, and it is a doozy--even the Heritage Foundation would never have dared to put forward a speaker's list so partisan, so biased, and with so few speakers with more than an inch-deep knowledge of the Great Depression." http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2009/03/great-depression-revisionism-blogging-the-council-on-foreign-relations-crashes-and-burns-in-real-time.html _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
