Coming soon for a return engagement: The Great Depression. From Amity Shlaes (born 1960), American author, newspaper and magazine columnist, and currently the chair of the board of trustees of the Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation, The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression (2007):
The big question about the American depression is not whether war with Germany and Japan ended it. It is why the Depression lasted until that war. From 1929 to 1940, from Hoover to Roosevelt, government intervention helped to make the Depression Great.
