I bought the book The Forgotten Man by Amity Schlaes from Amazon.com a couple weeks ago. I heard about the book listening to Glenn Beck’s radio show and have since heard several other people mention it.

The Forgotten Man is an amazing book that compiles a ton of information about what was going on in United States’ politics, society and government in the late 1920s and through the Great Depression of the 1930s.

The main thrust of the book is that, contrary to popular belief, the Depression was not caused by the crash of the Stock Market, although that is one event that set things into motion. The real undeniable truth is that the federal government under the leadership of presidents Hoover and Roosevelt did pretty much all the wrong things to fix the problems affecting the U.S. economy at the time.

I’m not finished with the book and I’ll give a longer, more detailed review of the book when I do finish it. For the moment I’m stuck and can not read any more even though I really want to.

See, I was reading along and it says “Frankfurter was irritated, drafting a letter to Brandeis...” and then I reached the bottom of the page. Moving to the top of the next page, I read “mother in a lean-to nursing a baby.”

I must have read that passage three or four times, trying to make some sense of it before I looked beyond the words and noticed the page numbers were out of sequence. The first page was page 306. The second page was page 275. In fact, pages 275-306 were duplicated in my book. To make matters worse, pages 307-338 were nowhere to be found!

So, I’m stuck. I notified Amazon and the fine folks there are sending me a new copy of the book and have given me return instructions for my “defective” book.