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By Amity Shlaes

ISBN-10: 0061807214

ISBN-13: 9780061807213

It's tricky this present day to visualize how the US survived the nice melancholy. basically throughout the tales of the typical those who struggled in the course of that period will we particularly know how the country continued. those are the folks on the center of Amity Shlaes's insightful and encouraging historical past of 1 of the main an important occasions of the 20 th century.

In The Forgotten Man, Amity Shlaes, one of many nation's most valuable monetary commentators, bargains a extraordinary reinterpretation of the nice melancholy. Rejecting the previous emphasis at the New Deal, she turns to the overlooked and relocating tales of person american citizens, and indicates how via courageous management they helped identify the steadfast personality we constructed as a nation.

Authoritative, unique, and totally engrossing, The Forgotten Man bargains a completely new examine probably the most vital classes in our heritage. merely once we recognize this background will we comprehend the power of yankee personality at the present time.

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24 • Chapter One reputations of many different scientists and scholars, and the resulting impressions about the work of entire universities are often questionable and out of date. The fuzzy and uneven knowledge about the performance of universities could easily lead academic leaders to make unwise decisions about the goals and priorities of the institution. If presidents and trustees cannot be sure how well a university is performing, they are more likely to become complacent or to ignore important problems that urgently need attention.

Successful universities also benefit from the fact that failures of leadership and poor decisions rarely cause immediate or lasting harm to the institution. In business, a faulty strategy or a serious error of judgment can ruin a company. In the case of universities, such mistakes tend to have much milder effects, both because decision making in matters that count the most—­education and research—­are much more highly decentralized and because declines in teaching and even research take longer to detect.

Successful universities also benefit from the fact that failures of leadership and poor decisions rarely cause immediate or lasting harm to the institution. In business, a faulty strategy or a serious error of judgment can ruin a company. In the case of universities, such mistakes tend to have much milder effects, both because decision making in matters that count the most—­education and research—­are much more highly decentralized and because declines in teaching and even research take longer to detect.

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