While the Democrats gather in Denver this week, Uncommon Knowledge will be talking with Amity Shlaes about her latest book, The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression, in which Amity argues that the central tenet of Democratic mythology—that, without FDR and the New Deal, all would have been lost—is flatly and utterly mistaken.

“Government intervention,” Amity insists, “helped make the Great Depression great.”

As the Denver convention produces soaring oratory about the future, an informed, meticulous, and engrossing analysis of the past. See for yourself.