American Affairs, Volume X, Number 4

12/16/2007 American Affairs Garet Garrett

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National Industrial Conference Board American Affairs, Vol X, no. 4, 1948

References

The Laughing Dragon: Garret on Inflation; Homer Ferguson on the Iron Curtain at home; The Self Strangulation of Europe, by Roger Auboin; Garrett reviews Beard’s “The Rise of American Civilization;” A true or false quiz on human nature and civilization; Marxism in Hollywood and more

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