"Throughout the book, one cannot help but notice the parallels between 'the greatest generation' and our own. Both periods are marked by high unemployment, low wages, increased inequality, and wealth and power concentrated in the hands of a few. The first step toward doing something about it is to remember the courage and radicalism of the previous generation, and the world it created. The second step is to guard it."
In Washington Monthly, Moshe Z. Marvit reviews Harvey J. Kaye's The Fight for the Four Freedom: What Made FDR and the Greatest Generation Truly Great.
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