The greatest generation was formed first by the Great Depression. They shared everything - meals, jobs, clothing.

It is, I believe, the greatest generation any society has ever produced.

The response to 'The Greatest Generation' and the books that followed has been one of the most satisfying experiences of my life.

Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.

The year of my birth, 1940, was the fulcrum of America in the twentieth century, when the nation was balanced precariously between the darkness of the Great Depression on one side and the storms of war in Europe and the Pacific on the other.

Everything I learned about the Great Depression was from a college textbook.