So far as I'm aware, none of the big leaders of the Greatest Generation was a member of the Greatest Generation.  Sure, the Greatest did the grunt work — but was Patton one of them?  Was Churchill, or Eisenhower, or MacArthur, or Roosevelt?  The Greatest Generation's chief work during the Great Depression was the suffering required, many times as dependents, to harden them for World War 2.  No great accomplishments were made by them until then, and almost no notable philosophy.  The great films we know from their period, such as It's a Wonderful Life, The Wizard of Oz, and Gone with the Wind, were made (mostly) by men significantly older than them — men who did the grunt work in the '20s and the '30s, and many of whom, in the case at least of Frank Capra and Michael Curtiz, were born in Europe in the 1800s.  The Greatest read Hemingway and Faulkner but were neither Hemingway nor...(Read Full Article)