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Thirteen Forum: FDR and the New Deal
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The late Arthur Schlesinger (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/01/washington/01schlesinger.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin), the great scholar of the New Deal, liked to talk about how the best historians know that history is as "an argument without end." Now a new generation of authors has taken up that argument, and it's as controversial as ever. Join columnists Amity Shlaes (http://www.amityshlaes.com/) and Jonathan Alter (http://www.postwritersgroup.com/alter.htm ) as they square off with strikingly different interpretations of the New Deal and its meaning for both Election 2008 and the country's future. Shlaes is the author of The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression (www.amazon.com/Forgotten-Man-History-Great-Depression/dp/0066211700) (2007), and a columnist for Bloomberg; Alter is the author of The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope (www.amazon.com/Defining-Moment-FDRs-Hundred-Triumph/dp/0743246004) and a senior editor for Newsweek. This event was held by the New-York Historical Society (www.nyhistory.org/).
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