I just finished David Stockman's "Great Deformation" -- a 769 page polemic on the modern corruption of free markets from FDR forward. Excellent fiscal and monetary history that deepens the case against the Fed in the last crisis and fills in much that I didn't know from the New Deal forward. In terms of reputations, FDR down deeper; Eisenhower up; Nixon even deeper in the cellar; Reagan down; the Bushes sink deeper; Obama, hard to think it possible, but lower. Maybe the most important book I've read in the last decade and I read a lot of good books. I will read it many more times and can't recommend it highly enough. If anyone has arguments against him, I want to hear them, as it is a polemic. Just so much real data and insight from the inside of business and government. His attack is on the welfare and the warfare state. I was already with him on crony capitalism, but he's put forth a strong challenge on defense. I'm thinking it through.