Specifically, with '37: the year of portent. (It can be ordered now; it'll propagate over the next few days through the Usual Channels, Amazon included; and there'll be a e-book available soon.) Churchill, FDR, Earhart, Bohr; the New London School Explosion, the Ohio River Flood, the opening of Buchenwald; the Rape of Nanking.... One thing about history: it makes even this miserable year look better. Except that Snow White isn't about to hit the cinemas for Christmas, Count Basie isn't jumping at Woodside, and The Hobbit isn't newly out.