BOOK REVIEW FDR’s bad example from Depression era

AMERICAN DEFAULT: The Untold Story of FDR, the Supreme Court and the Battle over Gold by Sebastian Edwards Princeton UP, New Jersey Hardcover: 288 pages Price: AUD$64.99 Reviewed by Colin Teese Just when one might have imagined that the last word had been spoken about the Great Depression that hit the United States and then the world back in 1929, Sebastian Edwards comes out with American Default. Happily Edwards, Professor of International Economics at UCLA, isn’t going to add to the confusion by advancing yet another opinion to the many already in existence about what caused the crash. Rather, in…