Reading progress update: I've read 39 out of 276 pages.
I'm about a third of the way through the University Press of Kansas's "American Presidential Elections" series, and I'm finding that the books generally fall into one of two categories. Either the books provide an incredibly insightful analysis of the election that offers a penetrating snapshot of American national politics at that time, or they provide a fairly bland overview that touches on all of the main events yet doesn't really offer anything new. So far Jeffries's book seems to be in the latter camp, though now that I'm past his fairly rote overview of 1930s politics he'll start to offer more depth and analysis.
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