“Except for high school musicals of ‘Annie’ and maybe a James Cagney film festival, Americans have done a great job of burying the Great Depression in the nation’s psyche. It took a financial collapse of today’s magnitude to reawaken the visions of that long, hard time of nearly 70 years ago. Publishers, naturally, are huffing and puffing to come up with the most appropriate new book to explain the current economic miseries.”