Notes Left Over |
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Author:
| Whitman, Walt |
ISBN: | 978-1-4191-3745-7 |
Publication Date: | Jun 2004 |
Publisher: | Kessinger Publishing, LLC
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $15.95 |
Book Description:
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If the United States, like the countries of the Old World, are also to grow vast crops of poor, desperate, dissatisfied, nomadic, miserably-waged populations, such as we see looming upon us of late years -- steadily, even if slowly, eating into them like a cancer of lungs or stomach -- then our republican experiment, notwithstanding all its surface-successes, is at heart an unhealthy failure.
If the United States, like the countries of the Old World, are also to grow vast crops of poor, desperate, dissatisfied, nomadic, miserably-waged populations, such as we see looming upon us of late years -- steadily, even if slowly, eating into them like a cancer of lungs or stomach -- then our republican experiment, notwithstanding all its surface-successes, is at heart an unhealthy failure.