[Torie]

I guess you are more into laughing than crying. That is perfectly understandable. But having a good cry before the laugh, makes the latter all the more satisfying. JMO.

By the way, one of the main characters in the novel had a few trenchant comments about Carter, and had a Reagan Bush sticker on his beat up van in 1984. That brought a smile to my face. No, before you ask, that was just a cameo moment, not what the book was about, except as part of larger theme, one of many, about human dignity.

[AmishDude]

I would like to seriously recommend the history book. If you can't giggle at "Hawley-Smoot Tariff", you will.