Compare and ContrastGiven current economic uncertainty, we've not failed to notice local interest in books about our country's economic history. Here's a few selections about the causes of the Great Depression, written from different viewpoints and for a varied audience. Thoughtful books all... pick and choose.
Liaquat Ahmaed's new book, Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke The World, tells the story of prominent bankers of the day: Montagu Norman of England, Émile Moreau of France, Hjalmar Schacht of Reichsbank, and Benjamin Strong of New York.
For a quick overview of the 'Crash', check out Black Tuesday: A Prelude to the Great Depression by Robin S. Doak. The book is written with a grade 5-8 audience in mind.
In Rethinking the Great Depression, author Gene Smiley presents an interesting study of the Great Depression and the long-term/current-day impact of FDR's New Deal response.
Amity Shlaes, a former Wall Street Journal reporter, walks the line between the dangers of government intervention -- and the dangers of the government's not intervening -- in her book, The Forgotten Man.
