A. E. Hotchner has written an autobiographical account of his experience of the Great Depression. He titled this touching account of his boyhood experience in St. Louis King of the Hill: A Memoir. Anyone who lived through that dreadful economic period can readily recognize the painful burdens young and old had to suffer which the author describes. Anyone who did not live through that period would benefit from reading how deeply affected people were by the economic distress that appeared so relentless. Hotchner relates how as a lad he was left virtually alone to fend for himself. His brother had to be farmed out to relatives. His mother was hospitalized in a public facility for the tubercular, and his father had to hit the road to sell Elgin watches. In addition, Aaron lost other fr…