Those Angry Days

by Lynne Olson

I read Those Angry Days in my history book club and I enjoyed it and learned from it. It was an interesting perspective on the 1930’s and the strength of the isolationist movement in the USA.

How polarized and polarizing the press was in that era sheds some light on what we confront today with Fox and CNN at the same poles which were once occupied by The Chicago Tribune and The NY Times. Things don’t really change that much.

If you like history I recommend Those Angry Days. It will teach you soem things about the era, Franklin Roosevelt and Charles Lindbergh. One of my friends crossed Roosevelt off his top ten Presidents list because of his equivocation. And I want to know why there are still Airports named after the Nazi fellow traveler Lindbergh.