| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.2

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Book Review

Roosevelt, the Great Depression, and the Economics of Recovery. By Elliot A. Rosen. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2005. xii, 308 pp. $39.50, ISBN 0-8139-2368-9.)

The Great Depression of the 1930s is to the writing of the economic history of the United States what the Civil War is to the writing of the nation's political and social history—an enduring puzzle, a source of profound scholarly controversy, at times even a kind of cottage industry unto itself. It is easy to see why. Just as the causes and consequences of the Civil War powerfully frame our understanding of the rise of the modern Republic, some of our most important insights and evidence concerning the inner workings of capitalism and the U.S. economy have resulted from examining the Great Depression.

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