You're listening to serious inquiries only. Oh, Hello and welcome to Series

inquiries only this is episode 125 I'm your host Thomas Smith.

All right, today I've got a really fascinating interview for you with Robert S. McElvane.

He is a historian. He teaches at Millsaps College. He is the author of The Great Depression

America 1929 through 1941. He's got a number of other projects as well in the works but I saw his article in the

Washington Post it's called I'm a Depression historian the GOP tax bill is

straight out of 1929 Republicans are again sprinting toward an

economic cliff. Sounds really ominous, sounds frankly quite believable to me, but

we'll see what he has to say about that in some other related topics.

Really fascinating stuff. Let's get over to it. I'm joined by Dr. Robert S. McElvane. Bob, how you doing today?

Doing fine, how are you, Thomas? I'm doing great. I'm really looking forward to this. I really hope to learn a lot from you today because you are a

depression historian is that right at least that's what the Washington Post article you

wrote says.

Well, I've been accused of being a depressing historian.

For the first few decades of my professional life,

I concentrated on the Great Depression.

And I've done five books on the time so I guess that makes me an expert. I've sort of moved on to other areas since then but I still recall quite a bit about it I think.

Good to hear.

I'm sure that means you know something about it.

Yes.

So I am, I've got your article up here.

I found it really fascinating for the Washington Post.

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