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Americans had always believed their country the land of opportunity ; the people of the North had never been surer , never raised their sights higher , than in the whirligig years of the late Sixties . The basic conditions that brought ...
Americans had always believed their country the land of opportunity ; the people of the North had never been surer , never raised their sights higher , than in the whirligig years of the late Sixties . The basic conditions that brought ...
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Suddenly Dewey's house of thought , which had never seemed complicated enough to be worth fussing over , showed a disturbing gap between the cellar of things and the roof of thought , the same gap that had almost unbalanced James .
Suddenly Dewey's house of thought , which had never seemed complicated enough to be worth fussing over , showed a disturbing gap between the cellar of things and the roof of thought , the same gap that had almost unbalanced James .
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Most important , a Roosevelt move against the Supreme Court , though it was being seriously considered in the White House before the election of 1936 and affected one of the most controversial of all political issues , was never ...
Most important , a Roosevelt move against the Supreme Court , though it was being seriously considered in the White House before the election of 1936 and affected one of the most controversial of all political issues , was never ...
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Bejabers Im Worth Me Thousands | 3 |
Thrust from the Top Іо | 10 |
From the Bottom Up | 29 |
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| Title | Rendezvous with Destiny: A History of Modern American Reform A Borzoi book A Vintage Book: History A Vintage book : K 31 Volume 31 of Vintage book Volume 31 of Vintage international |
| Author | Eric Frederick Goldman |
| Editor | Eric Frederick Goldman |
| Edition | reprint, revised |
| Publisher | Knopf, 1952 |
| Length | 503 pages |
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