Show 98 The Forgotten Man by Amity Schlaes Audio Book excerpt Disk 1 From ACU- Understanding the Great Depression is vitally important. The very government programs and false assumptions that prolonged America’s suffering are still with us today in large measure. This is the truth that you never got in school.The book is a scholarly work, sometimes dry but builds a mounting case against the idiotic and counterproductive policies of Federal intervention. There is no comprehensive list of FDR’s failed policies and programs but spread throughout the 400 pages an indelible image emerges of heavy-handed bureaucracies restraining and hobbling a free market and a free people. Over all it is a fine historical work and the best I’ve seen on the subject of the Great Depression. Podcast rating 5 out of 10. 74 min 16MB