共 如果連羅斯福的新政都沒能真正挽救國家經濟
我們還能期待政府在經濟崩潰時做什麼？
首部以全新觀點詮釋大蕭條歷史的開創性著作
每個貌似成功的政策背後，總有人被遺忘。
並且，日益絕望。
他，是從來沒被想到的人
他工作，他投票，他可能天天祈禱
但他永遠在付出……
1930年代，大蕭條的年代。羅斯福的新政帶領美國度過難關——這是我們熟知的歷史。但那些「被遺忘的人」、那些新政下的犧牲者，他們的故事、訴說的，全然不是這麼回事。
事實上，偉大的新政反而助長蕭條持續。在羅斯福振奮人心電台演說與平易近人的笑容背後，是一顆陰暗、悲觀和有失人性的心……
本書作者雅米蒂．薛蕾斯勇敢挑戰既定認知。她認為，唯有透過平凡男女在那時代掙扎的故事，我們才能真正了解大蕭條的歷史。《被遺忘的人》，正是首部以此全新觀點詮釋大蕭條的著作。薛蕾斯透過那些平凡人們如何在錯誤政策下圖存的故事，深刻檢驗羅斯福新政之功過。不論就史學或政治評論角度而言，《被遺忘的人》都開創出一條嶄新道路，是超越想像、卻又極其真實的優秀論著。
It's difficult today to imagine how America survived the Great Depression. Only through the stories of the common people who struggled during that era can we really understand how the nation endured. In The Forgotten Man, Amity Shlaes offers a striking reinterpretation of the Great Depression. Rejecting the old emphasis on the New Deal, she turns to the neglected and moving stories of individual Americans, and shows how they helped establish the steadfast character we developed as a nation.
Shlaes also traces the mounting agony of the New Dealers themselves as they discovered their errors. She shows how both Presidents Hoover and Roosevelt failed to understand the prosperity of the 1920s and heaped massive burdens on the country that more than offset the benefit of New Deal programs. The real question about the Depression, she argues, is not whether Roosevelt ended it with World War II. It is why the Depression lasted so long. From 1929 to 1940, federal intervention helped to make the Depression great—in part by forgetting the men and women who sought to help one another. The Forgotten Man, offers a new look at one of the most important periods in our history, allowing us to understand the strength of American character today.
本書中譯版《被遺忘的人：1930年代經濟大蕭條新史》由財信出版發行。
作者簡介
雅米蒂．薛蕾斯Amity Shlaes
．美國外交關係協會（Council on Foreign Relations）外聘高級研究員
．《華爾街日報》（The Wall Street Journal）編輯委員
．彭博社（Bloomberg）專欄作家
薛蕾斯也為《金融時報》（The Financial Times）、《華爾街日報》、《紐約客》（The New Yorker）、《財星》（Fortune）、《國家評論》（National Review）、《新共和國》（The New Republic）及《外交事務》（Foreign Affairs）等刊物撰文。另著有《貪婪之手》（The Greedy Hand），現居紐約。
Amity Shlaes is a senior fellow in economic history at the Council on Foreign Relations and a syndicated columnist at Bloomberg. She has written for The Financial Times and The Wall Street Journal, where she was an editorial board member, as well as for The New Yorker, Fortune, National Review, The New Republic, and Foreign Affairs. Shlaes is the author of The Greedy Hand. She lives in New York.
