Writes David Beito:

This is an email than I just sent off to Daniel Gross a reporter at Newsweek:

Dear Mr. Gross:

I am a professor of history at the University of Alabama. Much of my research and teaching focuses on the Great Depression era in American history.

In an article in Salon on January 2, 2009, David Sirota quoted you as stating, “One would be very hard-pressed to find a serious professional historian who believes that the New Deal prolonged the Depression” (See here).

If the quotation accurately represents your views, it is very mistaken.

Read the rest, but regarding the list, historian Tom Woods has also addressed this exact point in his work, as have economic historians Bob Higgs and Tom DiLorenzo.