According to one New Deal official, “Every house I visited...had a picture of the president. These ranged from newspaper clippings to large colored prints, framed in gilt cardboard.... And the feeling of these people for the president is one of the most remarkable phenomena I have ever met. He is at once God and their intimate friend; he knows them all by name, knows their little town and mill, their little lives and problems. And though everything else fails, he is there, and will not let them down.”
This is a quote from James West Davidson’s A Little History of the United States. (New Haven: Yale University Press, c. 2015). I have read many U.S. history books, but this is the best and fairest comprehensive history of our country I have ever read. Even if you think you know American history, you will learn a great deal from this book–and you will actually enjoy it.
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