Washington's stimulus-spenders should make sure they read Amity Shlaes' The Forgotten Man as a cautionary tale. It's caused many economic policy wonks to take a new look at the complex causes of the Great Depression and the ways in which...
Margaret Hoover is an American conservative feminist, political commentator, Republican strategist, and blogger. She is the great-granddaughter of former President Herbert Hoover. Most recently, she has worked as Deputy Finance Director to Rudy Giuliani’s Presidential Exploratory Committee. She is a frequent contributor to Fox News's O'Reilly Factor.
I am reading The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression by Amity Shlaes. Written in 2007, it tells the true story of the Depression and the failure of efforts at recovery. Unlike conservative books, it goes after Hoover and...
Dick Morris, the former chief strategist to Bill Clinton, is a Fox News contributor and a columnist for the New York Post and The Hill. He and his wife, Eileen McGann are the authors of the #2 New York Times bestseller, Fleeced, and ten other books. You can read all his columns and get them emailed to you for free by logging onto www.dickmorris.com.
McCain Missed a Trick
Conrad Black is the author of biographies of Maurice Duplessis, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Richard M. Nixon, was the publisher of the London Telegraph newspapers and Spectator, and founded the National Post of Canada. He has been a life peer in the British House of Lords as Lord Black of Crossharbour since 2001.
When he interrupted his campaign to return to DC to manage the economic crisis, McCain was onto a winning streak. But he blew it.
The Harm FDR Did
Before joining the Daily Beast, Ross Goldberg worked as a staff reporter on the New York Sun's city desk, where he covered courts as well as general assignments. In college, he served as managing editor of the Yale Daily News.
FDR is hailed as the savior of Depression America. But there is another, less charitable view.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Lee Siegel has written about culture and politics and is the author of three books: Falling Upwards: Essays in Defense of the Imagination; Not Remotely Controlled: Notes on Television; and, most recently, Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob. In 2002, he received a National Magazine Award for reviews and criticism.
Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
Gerald Posner is The Daily Beast's Chief Investigative Reporter. He's the award-winning author of 10 investigative nonfiction bestsellers, ranging from political assassinations, to Nazi war criminals, to 9/11, to terrorism. His latest book, Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth and Power—A Dispatch from the Beach, was published in October. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, the author Trisha Posner.
Martin Jacques is the cofounder of the UK think tank Demos, writes a regular column for The Guardian, and is a visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics Asia Research Centre. His new book, When China Rules the World, is available now.
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