Every day I bring you an item on Amazon that I personally use or has been purchased by many members of the audience and I have researched enough to recommend. Today’s TSP Amazon Item of the day is Ersatz in the Confederacy: Shortages and Substitutes on the Southern Home Front by Mary Elizabeth Massey.  If you really want to understand what a crisis is, this book will make it very clear to you. So what is an ersatz, it is an item made or used as a substitute, typically an inferior one, for something else.  In other words when you don’t … Continue reading →