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Amity Shlaes considers the elimination of the job of U.S trade representative.
Interviewee: Amity Shlaes
Interviewer: Lee Hudson Teslik
November 14, 2007
For more analysis of the Smoot-Hawley era, see Shlaes’ new book, a history of the Great Depression.
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