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Author:

Murphy, Robert P. (Robert Patrick), 1976-

Title:

The politically incorrect guide to the Great Depression and the New Deal / Robert P. Murphy.

Publisher:

Distributed to the trade by Perseus Distribution,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

ix, 198 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Depressions--1929--United States--Historiography.
New Deal, 1933-1939--Historiography.
United States--History--1933-1945.
United States--History--1919-1933.
United States--Economic conditions--1918-1945.
United States--Social conditions--1933-1945.
United States--Social conditions--1918-1932.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-191) and index.

Contents:

Introduction: Everything you learned about the Great Depression and the New Deal is wrong -- The crisis -- Big-government Herbert Hoover makes the Depression great -- Did the tightwad Fed's deflation cause the Great Depression? -- Did conservative economic policies cause the Depression? -- The failures of the New Deal -- The outrages of the New Deal -- The myth of wartime prosperity -- The Great Depression : lessons for today.

Summary:

Provides irrefutable evidence that not only did government interference with the market cause the Great Depression (and our current economic collapse), but Herbert Hoover's and Franklin Delano Roosevelt's big government policies afterwards made it much longer and much worse.--From publisher description.

Series:

P.I.G. series

ISBN:

1596980966 (pbk.) :
9781596980969 (pbk.) :

OCLC:

(OCoLC)315239348

LCCN:

2009010081

Locations:

WBPB115 -- Albert City Public Library (Albert City)

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

KSPG296 -- Burlington Public Library (Burlington)

KEPC896 -- Keosauqua Public Library (Keosauqua)

GZPE631 -- Pella Public Library (Pella)

LAPH975 -- Sioux City Public Library (Sioux City)