Progressive Century: The American Nation in Its Second Hundred YearsD. C. Heath, 1975 - 558 pages |
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... seemed to be talking nonsense . " Burn down your cities and leave our farms , and your cities will spring up again as if by magic , " he announced in the Cross of Gold speech at the Chicago con- vention ; " but destroy our farms and the ...
... seemed to be talking nonsense . " Burn down your cities and leave our farms , and your cities will spring up again as if by magic , " he announced in the Cross of Gold speech at the Chicago con- vention ; " but destroy our farms and the ...
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... seemed a promising course of action . Unfair trade practices would be described in general terms , and a trade commission would be granted authority to cope with specific re- straints of trade . The president announced that a Federal ...
... seemed a promising course of action . Unfair trade practices would be described in general terms , and a trade commission would be granted authority to cope with specific re- straints of trade . The president announced that a Federal ...
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... seemed never identified with any important movement or measure . " Why did Americans of the New Era elect the likes of Harding and Coolidge ? No doubt it was in part because during a period of rapid social change and adjustment the ...
... seemed never identified with any important movement or measure . " Why did Americans of the New Era elect the likes of Harding and Coolidge ? No doubt it was in part because during a period of rapid social change and adjustment the ...
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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