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Public Opinion

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Walter Lippmann


Public Opinion (1922), by Walter Lippman, is a critical assessment of functional democratic government, especially the irrational, and often…

The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution

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William Cooper Nell


A study of the black patriots of the American Revolution, with introductions by Harriet Beecher Stowe and Wendell Phillips.

The Challenge of Waste

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Stuart Chase


"The Challenge of Waste" examines the wasteful nature of the competitive market system, particularly from a Veblenian point of vie…

Technocracy

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William Henry Smyth


The word technocracy refers to a system of government by technical experts such as scientists, technologists, and engineers. William Henry S…

Philip Dru: Administrator

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Edward M. House


Philip Dru: Administrator: a Story of Tomorrow, 1920-1935 is a futuristic political novel published anonymously in 1912 by Edward Mandell Ho…

The Promise of American Life

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Herbert Croly


The book is said to "offer a manifesto of Progressive beliefs" that "anticipated the transition from competitive to corporate…

What is Industrial Democracy

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Norman Thomas


An explanation of the concept of industrial democracy and its relation to capitalism. (Summary by progressingamerica)

The Power of the Press

In The American Newspaper

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Will Irwin


The American Newspaper is a critical study of journalism conducted by Will Irwin from 1909 to 1910 spanning fifteen articles that discuss th…

Part 1, chapter 4: Number of Slaves shipped from Africa

In The Wrong of Slavery, the Right of Emancipation, and the Future of the African …

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Robert Dale Owen


"The Wrong of Slavery" is a work written by Robert Dale Owen based largely off of the work of the Freedmen's Inquiry Commission wh…

Chapter 2: The Philosophical Movement of the Revolutionary Period, 1761 - 1783,…

In Anti-slavery in America from the Introduction of African Slaves to the Prohibit…

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Mary S. Locke


Traces the origins of the abolitionist movement in the North American colonies of the British Empire through the American Revolution, to the…

Theodore Roosevelt's Bull Moose Progressive Party Platform (1912)

In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 091

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Progressive Party


"Pneumatic tubes, instead of store wagons, will deliver packages and bundles." Store purchases by tube was one of John Watkins Jr'…

The American Constitution and the Slave (1860)

In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 088

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Frederick Douglass


"With opinions, possession is more than nine points of the law. It is next to impossible to dislodge them." Woodrow Wilson's Study…