Title: Too personal, doesn't count as history
Review: Life in Washington, DC, and how it changed during the years of World War II. Brinkley says in the preface that the book "is less a work of history than of personal reminiscence and reflection"; I'd go so far as to call it gossip. It's pretty much nothing but a collection of anecdotes, but without an index(!) you can't even go through it looking for anecdotes about any one specific person. Some parts were interesting to read--the stuff about the move to income tax withholding, which I didn't know about before, for instance--but once only at most, no replay value.
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