Amity Shlaes's Great Society: A New History. A great review of all the players--political, legal, business, union, religious, activist; capitalist, socialist; urban mayors, national leaders, 60s, 70s--of the great failure of our time. Striking are the similarities between Johnson and Nixon. Amazing was the amount of money spent on planning and how little on acting. Interesting how what worked for the middle class, ownership, was so little tried with the poor.