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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ok, my memory for details of history is a bit shot. But I would like to brush up so I can put current events into perspective. Extra points for a reasonable length book. I under the Rise and Fall of the Third Reich is excellent but it’s pretty hefty.[/quote]

I don't know if there's one single, credible and un-biased book that does this, particularly with enough depth to be sufficient. As someone who never really studied or learned history well, I really enjoyed these:

[b]"The Plots Against the President: FDR, a nation in crisis, and the rise of the American Right" by Sally Denton[/b] - very interesting book, good coverage of the political parties' policies etc., with obvious focus on FDR's time.

[b]"Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America"[/b] by Heather Cox Richardson - very interesting and good summary as above, without the detailed focus on FDR.

[b]"The Death of Democracy: Hitler's Rise to Power and the Demise of the Weimar Republic" by Benjamin Carter Hett.[/b] Excellent book - the parallels to the US today will be quite striking. It's one of my son's texts for a college history class. It was laying on the coffee table and I started reading a section and ended up going back to the beginning and reading essentially the whole thing.[/quote]

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