Rendezvous with Destiny: A History of Modern American ReformKnopf, 1952 - 503 pages |
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... feeling crowded , buffeted , almost homeless in their own country . They thought of themselves as the natural elite , with the elite's prerogative of fixing standards , and now the nation was gaping in admiration at strange , crude ...
... feeling crowded , buffeted , almost homeless in their own country . They thought of themselves as the natural elite , with the elite's prerogative of fixing standards , and now the nation was gaping in admiration at strange , crude ...
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... feeling outrageously cheated of their share . During the first decade of the twentieth century the prices of agricultural products increased almost fifty per cent while the money value of rural property doubled . The real wages of urban ...
... feeling outrageously cheated of their share . During the first decade of the twentieth century the prices of agricultural products increased almost fifty per cent while the money value of rural property doubled . The real wages of urban ...
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... feeling of human brotherhood ... into possession of the human spirit . " In modern America this feeling could be effectively promoted only by a " New away from Nationalism , " which directed individual efforts self 153 Mr. Croly Writes ...
... feeling of human brotherhood ... into possession of the human spirit . " In modern America this feeling could be effectively promoted only by a " New away from Nationalism , " which directed individual efforts self 153 Mr. Croly Writes ...
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Bejabers Im Worth Me Thousands 3 8 | 3 |
Thrust from the | 9 |
From the Bottom Up | 24 |
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