Not sure I'd want to go back that far, knowing that a Great Depression and two World Wars awaited me. However, I do have a fantasy of going back to around 1955 as a 20-year-old man - knowing what I know now.
I'd be 78 years old today but a mega-billionaire thanks to my prudent investments in companies such as Boeing, IBM, McDonalds, Microsoft and Apple, among others!
great science fiction book about going back to the 50s, knowing what we know about what is to come, it’s called : Replay, written by Ken Grimwood. The guy keeps going back, living a life, dying, then ends up in his college dorm room again, through countless lives... the first thing he does in each new life, is build his fortune by betting on the World Series, the Kentucky Derby, Sony stock, etc...very cool story, and extremely hard to put down.