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" FDR's folly : "
Jim Powell.
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BL
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703565
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b525754
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| Main Entry
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Powell, Jim,1944-
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| Title & Author
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FDR's folly : : how Roosevelt and his New Deal prolonged the Great Depression /\ Jim Powell.
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First edition.
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New York :: Crown Forum,, [2003]
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, ©2003
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xvi, 336 pages ;; 22 cm
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0761501657
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: 9780761501657
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-321) and index.
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| Contents
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How could such bright compassionate people be wrong? -- What caused the Great Depression? -- What did FDR borrow from Hoover? -- Why did new dealers break up the strongest banks? -- Why did FDR seize everybody's gold? -- Why did FDR triple taxes during the Great Depression? -- Why was so much New Deal relief and public works money channeled away from the poorest people? -- Why didn't New Deal securities laws help investors do better? -- Why did new dealers make everything cost more in the depression? -- Why did the new dealers destroy all that food when people were hungry? -- How did the Tennessee Valley Authority depress the Tennessee economy? -- Why did the Supreme Court strike down early New Deal laws? -- How did Social Security contribute to higher unemployment? -- How did New Deal labor laws throw people out of work? -- How did FDR's Supreme Court subvert individual liberty? -- How did New Deal policies cause the depression of 1938? -- Why did New Deal lawyers disrupt companies employing millions? -- What have been the effects of the New Deal since the 1930s? -- What can we learn from FDR's mistakes?
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Roosevelt, Franklin D., (Franklin Delano),1882-1945.
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Depressions-- 1929-- United States.
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New Deal, 1933-1939.
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United States, Economic policy, 1933-1945.
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United States, Politics and government, 1933-1945.
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330.973/0917
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E806.P68 2003
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