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Cover 1 Title page 7 Copyright page 8 Contents 9 Introduction 11 1 How Could Such Bright, Compassionate People Be Wrong? [1] 21 2 What Caused the Great Depression? [27] 47 3 What Did FDR Borrow from Hoover? [39] 59 4 Why Did New Dealers Break Up the Strongest Banks? [53] 73 5 Why Did FDR Seize Everybody's Gold? [65] 85 6 Why Did FDR Triple Taxes During the Great Depression? [75] 95 7 Why Was So Much New Deal Relief and Public Works Money Channeled Away from the Poorest People? [89] 109 8 Why Didn't New Deal Securities Laws Help Investors Do Better? [105] 125 9 Why Did New Dealers Make Everything Cost More in the Depression? [113] 133 10 Why Did the New Dealers Destroy All That Food When People Were Hungry? [129] 149 11 How Did the Tennessee Valley Authority Depress the Tennessee Economy? [141] 161 12 Why Did the Supreme Court Strike Down Early New Deal Laws? [153] 173 13 How Did Social Security Contribute to Higher Unemployment? [173] 193 14 How Did New Deal Labor Laws Throw People Out of Work? [187] 207 15 How Did FDR's Supreme Court Subvert Individual Liberty? [207] 227 16 How Did New Deal Policies Cause the Depression of 1938? [221] 241 17 Why Did New Deal Lawyers Disrupt Companies Employing Millions? [231] 251 18 What Have Been the Effects of the New Deal Since the 1930s? [245] 265 Taxing and Spending 265 Federal Deposit Insurance 269 Banking Policies 271 Social Security 273 Farm Subsidies and Restrictions 275 Tennessee Valley Authority 277 Anticompetitive Laws 280 Antitrust Laws 280 The Federal Gold Monopoly 281 The New Deal Versus Economic Liberty 282 19 What Can We Learn from FDR's Mistakes? [263] 283 Notes [275] 295 Introduction 295 1 How Could Such Bright, Compassionate People Be Wrong? 296 2 What Caused the Great Depression? 298 3 What Did FDR Borrow from Hoover? 300 4 Why Did New Dealers Break Up the Strongest Banks? 302 5 Why Did FDR Seize Everybody's Gold? 303 6 Why Did FDR Triple Taxes During the Great Depression? 304 7 Why Was So Much New Deal Relief and Public Works Money Channeled Away from the Poorest People? 306 8 Why Didn't New Deal Securities Laws Help Investors Do Better? 308 9 Why Did New Dealers Make Everything Cost More in the Depression? 308 10 Why Did the New Dealers Destroy All That Food When People Were Hungry? 311 11 How Did the Tennessee Valley Authority Depress the Tennessee Economy? 312 12 Why Did the Supreme Court Strike Down Early New Deal Laws? 314 13 How Did Social Security Contribute to Higher Unemployment? 315 14 How Did New Deal Labor Laws Throw People Out of Work? 317 15 How Did FDR's Supreme Court Subvert Individual Liberty? 319 16 How Did New Deal Policies Cause the Depression of 1938? 319 17 Why Did New Deal Lawyers Disrupt Companies Employing Millions? 321 18 What Have Been the Effects of the New Deal Since the 1930s? 322 19 What Can We Learn from FDR's Mistakes? 324 Selected Bibliography [307] 327 Articles and Pamphlets 327 Books 332 Acknowledgments [323] 343 Index [325] 345 A 345 B 346 C 347 D 347 E 348 F 348 G 349 H 349 I 349 J 350 K 350 L 350 M 350 N 351 O 352 P 352 R 352 S 353 T 354 U 355 V 356 W 356 Y 356