Showing posts with label the Great Depression. Show all posts
Showing posts with label the Great Depression. Show all posts
Monday, September 29, 2025

A review of Ric Burns’ “New York: A Documentary History”

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“Whereupon the Citty and Fort Amsterdam and Province of the New Netherlands were surrendered under His Most Exct. Mat’s. Obedience, made and...
Friday, October 11, 2024

A review of Ken Burns’ “The Roosevelts: An Intimate History”

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A miniseries covering Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, and Eleanor Roosevelt Just as the Americans remember  Mr. Churchill , so do t...
Saturday, August 10, 2024

Herbert Hoover: More interventionist than he’s remembered

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How much of the blame for the Great Depression belongs to Herbert Hoover? Herbert Hoover had been president for only seven months, when the...
Thursday, May 23, 2024

A review of PBS’s “Bonnie & Clyde” (American Experience)

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It’s strange that people romanticize Bonnie & Clyde, since they murdered 11 people (or more) … It’s strange that people romanticize Bonn...
Wednesday, October 11, 2023

A review of PBS’s “Eleanor Roosevelt” movie

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“A snub is the effort of a person who feels superior to make someone else feel inferior. To do so, he has to find someone who can be made to...
Monday, October 24, 2022

A review of “Crashes, Booms, Panics, and Government Regulation” (audiobook)

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So I was recently listening to some presentations from an audio series about investment . This installment was called “Crashes, Booms, Panic...
Saturday, June 5, 2021

A review of “Keynes and the Keynesian Revolution” (audiobook)

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“But this long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too usele...
Sunday, February 26, 2017

A review of Ken Burns’ “Jazz” (PBS series)

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"Jazz is the assassination, the murdering, the slaying of syncopation. I would even go so far as to confess that we are musical anarc...
Saturday, January 30, 2016

A review of PBS's “FDR” movie

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"This great Nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper. So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that t...
Monday, May 18, 2015

A review of “The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression”

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We've all heard stories about how bad things were during the Great Depression , with extensive poverty and massive unemployment - perh...