Dorothea Lange, courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and MuseumIn an interesting piece in the October Atlantic, Benjamin Schwarz surveys a collection of books about daily life during the Great Depression in an attempt to glean some lessons from the past about what we can expect in the near future as the nation lurches toward economic recovery.The good news, Schwarz discovers, is that the Great Depression was not, in reality, as terrible as the mythology that surrounds it
