Good article by Amity Shlaes. She recently published a book called The Forgotten Man about the depression. It's a bit of a revisionist history about FDR and the New Deal from what I've gleaned from reviews. As always, I haven't gotten around to reading it, but it's on the list.
Here she points out that Hoover's reputation today is not very accurate, and Democrats abuse history to bash Bush. Hoover was a bad president, but for quite different reasons than the conventional wisdom holds.
