...victim of unintended consequences. Sumner was defending classical liberalism against the progressives of his own time; Amity Shlaes's intellectual preferences lie in the same direction. Her captivating and unorthodox history of the Depression is about...

FIVE DAYS IN PHILADELPHIA: The Amazing "We Want Willkie!" Convention of 1940 and How it Freed FDR to Save the Western

From Frances Hayward.Sir, Amity Shlaes ("Blame delays in New Orleans on...92677, USFrom Mr Steven Morris.Sir, Amity Shlaes (September 12) states that the...USFrom Mr Henry D. Fetter.Sir, Amity Shlaes' timely reminder of the virtues...

I dreamed you paid your dues in Canada". Most of us know the song, and most of us have also dreamed of Canada, just like Van

Incompetence has been the word used the world over to describe the rescue from Hurricane Katrina. The US Federal Emergency

From Mr Steven Morris.Sir, Amity Shlaes' article "Bush has learnt to ride out the storm" (September 2) is so utterly out of touch with reality that it leaves one wondering...

...watching the horrifying television coverage of people dying in the streets of New Orleans can only wonder what planet Amity Shlaes has been living on when she says that the US was prepared for Katrina (September 2).The only leadership taken by President...

From Mr Johan Lernmark.Sir, Amity Shlaes' attempt at defending the Bush administration's response to Hurricane Katrina smacks of desperation at best, or worse, disingenuousness...

...reports on the horrific situation in New Orleans and President George W. Bush's U-turn on the need for international aid, Amity Shlaes' claim that he "was prepared for the hurricane" (September 2) is at best provocative and at worst disrespectful.It would...

From Mr Howard Norman.Sir, With reference to Amity Shlaes' article "Bush has learnt to ride the storm" (September 2), the amazing thing about her article is that it is contradicted not...