Progressive Century: The American Nation in Its Second Hundred YearsD. C. Heath, 1975 - 558 pages |
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... President Issues and Interests : American Society at the End of an Era When Grover Cleveland entered the White House in 1893 , he was con- vinced that all silver purchases would have to be stopped . As he read the signs of the times ...
... President Issues and Interests : American Society at the End of an Era When Grover Cleveland entered the White House in 1893 , he was con- vinced that all silver purchases would have to be stopped . As he read the signs of the times ...
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... president nor his rhetoric was equal to the task . On September 25 he delivered a long and physically taxing speech at Pueblo , Colorado . Early the next morning his left side was paralyzed , and he had difficulty in articulating . His ...
... president nor his rhetoric was equal to the task . On September 25 he delivered a long and physically taxing speech at Pueblo , Colorado . Early the next morning his left side was paralyzed , and he had difficulty in articulating . His ...
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... president argued that national security required avoidance of " penny - wise , pound - foolish " cut- backs in defense spending , but he and Secretary Humphrey tried to do better in 1954. They reduced expenditures by almost 10 per cent ...
... president argued that national security required avoidance of " penny - wise , pound - foolish " cut- backs in defense spending , but he and Secretary Humphrey tried to do better in 1954. They reduced expenditures by almost 10 per cent ...
Contents
Times and Tensions of a Developing Industrial Society | 3 |
MAPS | 21 |
American Society at the End of an Era | 34 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Progressive Century: The American Nation in Its Second Hundred Years |
| Author | Paul W. Glad |
| Publisher | D. C. Heath, 1975 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 5 Jun 2006 |
| ISBN | 0669904074, 9780669904079 |
| Length | 558 pages |
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