Amity Schlaes is all, “OMG FDR UR RUINING DA COUNTRY WID DA KEYNESIAN $$$” and FDR is all “Mwahahahahaha.”

I seem to gravitate towards history books written by journalists (Kapuściński, Chandrasekaran) perhaps because the writing is style is very factual with just enough “humanity” to make it personal. Shlaes gives a very erudite accounting of events leading up, during, and ending the Great Depression. With keen observations and almost a luminous foreshadowing of current situations, Forgotten Man is an excellent read.