The American Mercury February 1936

12/29/2010 American Mercury

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Senator Lester Dickson asks, “What’s the Matter With Congress”

Progress Toward Collectivism, by Albert Jay Nock

Portrait of a Lifer

Reno the Naughty, by Anthony Turano

A Yankee Looks at Dixie, by Katherine F. Gerauld

S.K. Padover on the First Liberal

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