FDR ; Hillary talking to US about how her husband followed in his footsteps

[Cleita]

95. If you want a historical read about the turn of the century up to the roaring twenties.

Read Upton Sinclair's novel, "Oil". It's a fictionalized version of the oil barons and how they took over the California oil interests particularly about the Doheny family of oil multi-millionares. He fictionalizes places but it's easy to figure out where he's referring to, like Los Angeles, Long Beach and Signal Hill, the ties to the movie industry, Hearst Castle etc. and how the rich lived back then pretty much on the backs of the poor and bribing politicians. It also chronicles how the oil barons tried to destroy the unions and especially the communist party that supported the labor unions in that era. Since much of it takes place in where I'm living now, I'm particularly interested and dismayed as to how little things have changed socially. We are of course having our ongoing problems with oil interests, the Santa Barbara spill being the most recent occurance.