In January 1931, a Youngstown lawyer named Benjamin Roth decided to start a diary. Realizing that he was "living through an historic thing that will long be remembered" � as he put it in one early entry � he wanted to keep a record for posterity.
Mr. Roth's diaries have just been published in book form, and they are an eye-opening read, though not necessarily in the ways you might think, reports the New York Times.
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