Freedom from Fear

I have gotten on a kick of reading the Oxford histories of the Americans.

The first two were about periods I did not know much about (1865-96 and 1789-1815), so their novelty to me may may have made me more positive than merited. Now that I have gone over this period, which I know reasonably well, I see that they people @ Oxford are doing something great. This is a very good book about a period that people think they know.

I was, as an aside, impressed by Kennedy's takedown of agriculture in the New Deal and, interestingly, I had never heard that farmers got themselves exempted from the draft (they also got themselves exempted from prohibition, btw).

There is a good insight into the Japanese imperial government in the war, too. It might have been good to see more cultural history of the depression decade, but not much.