We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2010 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/10/reflections_on_1.html Sat, 24 Mar 2012 15:26:50 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2012 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/10/reflections_on_1.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/10/reflections_on_1.html Sat, 04 Oct 2008 21:06:36 -0600
See http://www.bea.gov/national/xls/gdplev.xls. You can run the numbers yourself. And ask yourself why neither Schlaes nor Lorenzo nor samizdata talk about the GDP growth numbers under the New Deal.

]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/10/reflections_on_1.html#comment-78893 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/10/reflections_on_1.html#comment-78893 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:49:49 -0600 "Let us consider the following data on unemployment rates during the 1930s:

1930: 8.7%
1931: 15.9%
1932: 23.6%
1933: 24.9%
1934: 21.7%
1935: 20.1.%
1936:16.9%
1937:14.3%
1938:19%
1939:17.2%
1940:14.6%

(Source: US Department of Commerce, Historical Statistics of the United States, as quoted by Thomas J. Lorenzo, in "How Capitalism Saved America, page 180-181)"
]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/10/reflections_on_1.html#comment-78889 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/10/reflections_on_1.html#comment-78889 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 12:46:47 -0600
Well, because Real GDP under FDR grew 8% on average from 1933 to 1941. [For comparison Saint Ronnie only managed to match that for one-quarter.] That's why you don't see Schlaes presenting a table showing GDP.
]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/10/reflections_on_1.html#comment-78887 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/10/reflections_on_1.html#comment-78887 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:08:55 -0600 ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/10/reflections_on_1.html#comment-78886 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/10/reflections_on_1.html#comment-78886 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 10:17:40 -0600 I've not read Ms. Shales book, however, I did read David Kennedy's "Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 (Oxford History of the United States)"
http://www.amazon.com/Freedom-Fear-American-Depression-1929-1945/dp/0195144031/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1223266973&sr=1-1
in which a leftist historian pretty much made the same points, but earlier, as rightist historian Shales does.
I  pretty much gotta go with the lefty who "truths" his party's major shibboleth for the book worth buying!]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/10/reflections_on_1.html#comment-78880 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/10/reflections_on_1.html#comment-78880 Sun, 05 Oct 2008 23:30:46 -0600