![]() It can even be argued that one year-1936-created the modern entitlement challenge that so bedevils both parties only. The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression by Amity Shlaes 3.6 (127) Paperback (Reprint) 16.99 18.99 Save 11 Hardcover 26.99 Paperback 16.99 eBook 13.49 Audiobook 0. ![]() It is no coincidence that the first peacetime year in American history in which federal spending outpaced the total spending of the states and towns was that election year of 1936. The president made groups where only individual citizens or isolated cranks had stood before, ministered to those groups, and was rewarded with votes. But Roosevelt systematized interest-group politics more generally to include many constituencies-labor, senior citizens, farmers, union workers. She takes a fresh look at the great scapegoats of the period, from Andrew Mellon. The author has written a rather lengthy account of. In this illuminating work of history, Shlaes follows the struggles of those now forgotten people, from a family of butchers in Brooklyn who dealt a stunning blow to the New Deal, to Bill W., who founded Alcoholics Anonymous, and Father Divine, a black cult leader. ![]() The idea that such groups might find mainstream parties to support them was not novel either: Republicans, including the Harding and Coolidge administrations, had long practiced interest-group politics on behalf of big business. Amity Shlaes The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression is, in many respects, a unique book. ![]() The idea that Americans might form a political group that demanded something from government was well known and thoroughly reported a century earlier by Alexis de Tocqueville. “Roosevelt won because he created a new kind of interest-group politics. ![]()
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