Michael Barone

A Little History of the Great Depression

February 18, 2009 RSS Feed Print

By Michael Barone, Thomas Jefferson Street blog

My Creators Syndicate column this week is a little history lesson on—you guessed it—the Great Depression.

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fuh kweww of NJ 1:13PM February 26, 2009

Mr. Higgs is correct, "Are other people's problems more important than our own?" ...we like to help but ????

denise of MA 8:35PM February 23, 2009

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Michael Barone is a senior writer for U.S.News & World Report and principal coauthor of The Almanac of American Politics. He has written for many publications—including the Economist and the New York Times.

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