I just finished reading a Anxious Decades, America in Prosperity and Depression by Michael Parish. I found this to be a balanced and interesting perspective on the 20's and 30's. I thought it would be useful to share some observations with the community because we can learn much about where we are headed by what happened then. I will present this in the form of two diaries. The first compares the current administration to the three that preceded the Great Depression, the Harding, Coolidge and Hoover administrations. For those in a hurry, the punch line is that, Bush in my opinion takes the worst of each of these presidents. Note the similarities from observations from the book. These are my own syntheses, relying heavily on what Parish wrote, and are summaries, not exact quotes.
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