FDR's Folly: How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression

Think FDR was a great president? Think again.

The Great Depression and the New Deal-for generations, the collective American consciousness has believed that the former ruined the country and the latter saved it. Endless praise has been heaped upon President Franklin Delano Roosevelt for masterfully reining in the Depression's destructive effects and propping up the country on his New Deal platform. In fact, FDR has achieved mythical status in American history and is considered to be, along w...