The Great Depression, the Great Depression and the American Dream

The 70s was about sort of re-evaluating a lot of the things Americans had taken for granted in terms of our self-image and whatnot. It's hard to describe how lone ranger-ish we felt at the time period, but he's quoted in Sir Max Hastings' new book too. This was the era where John F. Kennedy was saying, you know, we will bear any burden for the success of liberty. The Vietnam War is something that grows out of colonialism; it was one of those territories that a colonial power from Europe controlled.