I concur whole heartedly. Being born in 62 I missed some of the subtleties of the era that didn't get recorded in the proper light for posterity (court historians are notorious). The larger percentage of my studies has been the first half of the 20th century though I am not unaware of what happened in Viet Nam I do not claim anything close to expertise in it. While focusing on one particular era I have not neglected the rest of history but there are not enough days in a human life span to know it all. In my field I have interviewed literally hundreds of W.W.II vets and spouses as well as a large number of W.W.I vets and of course branched into life in general back in the day and always inquired of the Depression. These personal accounts are a priceless addition to whatever information books offer. Encountering lots of guys who were in Vet Nam has given me some interesting perspectives to the war but the era was never my course of study and as mentioned in the one post I have a natural aversion to Kennedy's - perhaps it's because of the cult of personality that surrounds them regardless of the loathsome personal traits they each had. Also the more I read about Johnson or the whiz kids the less appealing the prospect of new knowledge became. What tragedy results to innocent pawns because of the ambition and folly of their hubris "betters".