minds aren't quite sure what to do, and yet that ass hole who lives next door is convinced that what we're doing is wrong. Speaking of ass holes, I'm amazed at the revision of the Depression currently swirling around out there, not only by psuedo-historian cunts (yeah, I said it) like Amity Shales, but also the dissembling right wing pricks (George Will, Jonah Goldberg, et. al) who repeat her fallacious arguments. Mind you, I'm no expert on the Depression--that's why I picked up this book--but neither do I rewrite history to suit my purposes, nor do I cite inaccuracies to make my point, hoping I won't be caught on them. Anyway, this book: It is nearly impossible for me to imagine a book about the Great Depression being better than this. (The book is divided into two parts--the Depression and WWII--and I read only the fist part.) It has no political ulterior motive: Kennedy praises Hoover more than he's usually praised and faults FDR more than he's usually faulted. And with beautifully clear writing, he simply tells us what we know happened. Interestingly, he notes that the stock market crash in '29 did not start the Depression, an I assumption I'd always made. In fact, he says economists still have no real idea what caused the Depression. He also notes that FDR's first wave of reforms were borrowed almost directly from Hoover and made very little impact and that it was the second wave, often known as the Second New