“…there is a paradoxical aspect to the Thirties that gets lost sometimes in the focus on suffering. It was a time of great thinkers and dreamers — musicians, artists, writers, poets, comics artists, architects, film directors — all producing some of the finest work of the 20th century. It was a time of political upheaval when ‘–isms’ threatened to disrupt notions of governance and economics held sacred for centuries. Our modern political landscape is the echo of battles that were begun during the Great Depression and, in some ways, we have yet, as a people, to settle some of its fundamental questions.”

Bluesman