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FDR's Folly

How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression

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FDR's Folly

By: Jim Powell
Narrated by: William Hughes
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About this listen

 Think FDR was a great president? Think again.

In the minds of historians and the American public alike, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was one of our greatest presidents, not least because he supposedly saved America from the Great Depression. But as historian Jim Powell reveals in this groundbreaking book, Roosevelt's New Deal policies actually prolonged and exacerbated the economic disaster, swelled the federal government, and prevented the country from turning around quickly.

In today's turbulent domestic and global environment, eerily similar to that of the 1930s, it's more important than ever before to uncover and understand the truth of our history, lest we be doomed to repeat it. You'll never look at FDR in the same way again.

©2003 Jim Powell (P)2008 Blackstone Audio, Inc. Americas Economic History Economics Political Science Politics & Activism Politics & Government Presidents & Heads of State United States Franklin D Roosevelt Capitalism Roosevelt Family Taxation Socialism Banking Government

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"Very readable, factual, and insightful - and endorsed by two Nobel Prize-winning economists." (Thomas Sowell, Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University)
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