" ...Readers have waited eagerly for this book for decades. Amity Shlaes has produced it."

"I could not put it down...."

Miss Shlaes challenges much of the received wisdom and does it with brio and scholarship. Amity Shlaes takes no prisoners."

"The Forgotten Man offers an understanding of the era's politics and economics that may be unprecedented in its clarity. Seldom has such a substantive work been such a delight to read. Were John Kenneth Galbraith and Milton Friedman to spend a century or two reconciling their positions so as to arrive at a clear view of the Great Depression, this would be it."