American Affairs, Volume IX, Number 2

12/08/2007 American Affairs Garet Garrett

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National Industrial Conference Board American Affairs, Vol IX, no.2, 1847

References

The Marxian Virus in American Thought; Garrett on the World Trade Charter; The Government Nobody Knows, by Henry Cabot Lodge; A World Fund to Stablize Employment; The Last Chance to Import People; The Closed Shop, By Cecil B. De Mille; Morley asks: Shall We Take the Road to Empire?

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