The Epic of AmericaLittle, Brown,, 1959 - 405 páginas |
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... seemed to enjoy money - making chiefly as an activity . The American had always been “ taking a chance . " The most serious of the religious leaders of the Pilgrims and Puritans had taken a great chance when they left comfortable ...
... seemed to enjoy money - making chiefly as an activity . The American had always been “ taking a chance . " The most serious of the religious leaders of the Pilgrims and Puritans had taken a great chance when they left comfortable ...
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... seemed to keep it open , no matter what was being done . But things were changing . The wave of prosperity which had begun in 1879 , and which had shut off Western discontent for a while , had spent itself by 1884 , when a panic ...
... seemed to keep it open , no matter what was being done . But things were changing . The wave of prosperity which had begun in 1879 , and which had shut off Western discontent for a while , had spent itself by 1884 , when a panic ...
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... seemed an incredible anachronism . For the past decade we had had our minds intently focused on moral problems and the effort to work out ways and means of making our own land a better and cleaner one in all its aspects . The muckraking ...
... seemed an incredible anachronism . For the past decade we had had our minds intently focused on moral problems and the effort to work out ways and means of making our own land a better and cleaner one in all its aspects . The muckraking ...
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PREFACE | 3 |
THE RETURN OF QUETZALCOATL | 10 |
I | 21 |
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