[publius911]

I think the most helpful view of a historical period comes from reading both original sources, such as diaries, contemporaneous journalism, or memoirs of participants, and a selection of recent scholarship.

Totally missing is historical education and perspective about one of the most explosively expensive (ruinous) and pervasive issues of the last 40 years: climate change.

I would add at least these three:

Global Crisis, Geoffrey Parker [LF]
The Third Horseman, William Rosen[LF]
The Dust Bowl, Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns [LF]
Most of the books in my digital library are read on an Amazon (small) Paper White Kindle. (NO COLOR)

I also have the FREE Kindle for the PC "app" and Kindle for iPAD 2 which are both recommended for reading any title I display as [LF] above, which have large color maps and other illustrations or material which cannot really be displayed usefully on a monochrome or grayscale small display.

[Tax-chick]

I read a book about the Dust Bowl, but it didn’t involve Ken Burns. I’ve read other books on recent environmental issues, including one about the papyrus plant (as an icon of water quality in Africa) and another about bats.