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New Deal or Raw Deal?: How FDR's Economic Legacy Has Damaged America | 
| Author: Burton W. Folsom Jr.
Publisher: Threshold Editions
List Price: $15.00
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Rating:  reviews
Media: Paperback
Pages: 336
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.3 x 1
ISBN: 1416592377
Dewey Decimal Number: 920
EAN: 9781416592372
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 I always wondered why my grandparents hated FDR. March 9, 2010
Mike (New Jersey, US)
A great book for everyone interested in history or economics. This should be required reading for everyone in Congress!
 Black Is White March 6, 2010
John L. Thompson (Russell Springs, Ky USA)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Our whole lives we've lived thinking black is black and white is white. as we get older most of us hope that people start seeing the grays and the blends... but now, in this age, a growing portion of the population are becoming quite, quite disturbed... claiming black to be white and white to be black. And there is no room for discussion. You must now understand that all attempts by anyone from the past to make humanity a little more humane, or to wrest some control away from power and put it in the hands of labor, or just to have say in our own destiny... well, turns out that is pure evil. we have begun a time where good is evil, and evil is good.
We are doomed, and if we can do no better... than good riddance to us.
Balanced (!) and well researched. March 6, 2010
W.P. (Virginia)
I am convinced that most of those leaving one-star reviews have not read this book, but were grinding their own ideological axe. Note that I used the word "balanced" in the review title. Folsom presents all sides of the issue and does not hesitate to give FDR credit for those programs that actually worked; reducing tariffs and the bank holiday among them. He also lets FDR off the hook where he (Folsom) is admittedly benefiting from 20/20 hindsight. I think what irks the FDR worshipers is that this book lifts the veil most historians place around FDR and his presidency.
Folsom's work is thoroughly researched. And he benefits enormously (as does the reader!) from personal accounts of those closest to FDR. Those very people kept their allegiance to the President while he was alive, but who also recognized their duty to history once he was gone. The accounts from their personal recollections, journals and other writings give a true insider's look into FDR's administration.
I highly recommend this book for anyone interested in American history, regardless of personal politics. For those under 30 it should be mandatory reading, as I doubt you were taught much about the depression of the 1930s ... other than the myth that FDR alone saved the nation. It should also be mandatory reading for all elected officials and government employees. The only thing scarier than some of the policies detailed in this book, is that we seem to be ready to repeat history.
New Deal Or Raw Deal March 5, 2010
This Book is an eye opener. It explains a lot of things that go on in government today. FDR was not as much trying to be president he as he was trying to be a dictator!
 Debunk's FDR's Myth March 5, 2010
Charles M. Torno
FDR's progressive economic policies proved to have been an utter disaster for America and the succeeding generations who still have to deal with his failed economic legacy.
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