Sam’s Reviews > The Noir Forties: The American People From Victory to Cold War > Status Update

Did I miss the explanation/introduction of "The Ten"? By context it's some sort of club or group...?

Just referenced a move that was also used as an example in a previous chapter, but didn't mention the earlier reference and described it in a different way as well as providing additional details that probably should have been given with the earlier example. At the very least, there should be a footnote when this happens (imho). To me, it makes a book feel like a collection of articles...

One thing I am liking about this book, is that it doesn't ignore women or only talk about them in relation to men. Lingeman acknowledges the struggles faced by both men and women in first dealing with men going off to war and them with them coming back. And points out many of the double standards women faced.

Every time the OPA is mentioned in this book, I'm like belters!

Then I'm like, no Sara, you are not reading The Expanse, you are reading a non-fiction book about post WW2 America.

I had to actually go look up what this OPA is (Office of Price Administration) because it's so ingrained in my head as Outer Planets Alliance.

By November [1947] the Consumer Price Index had climbed to 150.7.

Wow, I don't remember this from high school. Im pretty sure it was all, "WW2 ended the Great Depression and everything was hunky-dory with the economy after that."

Of course, they were also like, "the men came back from the war and the women gave up their jobs and went back home gladly."