Given the task definition and input, reply with output. In this task, you are given books product reviews in English language. The goal is to classify the review as "POS" if the overall sentiment of the review is positive or as "NEG" if the overall sentiment of the review is negative.

Too Liberal . The authors cover many of the events that occurred during the timeframe so I believe you can get some decent background info from the book. However, it is very political and seems to blame the country for not adopting a social welfare state much sooner. In many areas, it is too superficial and quickly concludes "where was a government program to cure these ills of history" and doesn't really explore the causes of problems. Case in point, American farmers fed the world during WW-1 as European agriculture was in shambles. That allowed American farmers to enjoy strong prices and high incomes in the war years. But in the 1920s, the European farmers were back and the market suffered from classic oversupply and farm incomes declined. The authors don't report that or even classify the war years as an anomoly for farmers. Instead, they focus on the unfairness that the farmers didn't participate to the same degree in the prosperity of the 1920s. The tone gets very upset with thoughts that the federal government should have prevented this like our wonderful never-ending farm programs of today that have us subsidizing the growth of tobacco and mohair wool. In other areas, the book is wrong. For example, it traces the formation of the Federal Reserve System to JP Morgan's inability to stem the bank failures and outflow of gold in the Panic of 1907. Actually, Morgan was very successful in rescuing the powerless federal government and raising gold in Europe to prop up our banks. The Federal Reserve System arose as the government was worried about having one private man being able to wield so much financial power. All in all, the historical background is there and is a good primer, but be prepared to listen to a lecture of what is fair and right and what is not
NEG