And they're both frickin' hilarious. Before a case can be made for why these books deserve a foothold in America's high schools, it's probably best to take a step back and ask what history class is supposed to do in the first place. Ideally, history education asks two questions. The fact is that Harry Truman won the election of 1948 by running an extremely aggressive campaign against a complacent, passive Thomas Dewey, to the point of spouting rhetoric that bordered on demagoguery. The fact is that while there's no totally definitive evidence that Eleanor Roosevelt was gay, it seems pretty likely.
Facts are very useful, but the second question is more interesting.
If history is going to remain relevant as a discipline, kids must be taught to be skeptical.