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THE AMERICAN EMPIRE
by
SCOTT NEARING
Author of
"Wages in the United States"
"Income"
"Financing the Wage-Earner's Family"
"Anthracite"
"Poverty and Riches," etc.
New York
The Rand School of Social Science
7 East 15th Street
1921
All rights reserved
Copyright, 1921,
by the
Rand School of Social Science
First Edition, January, 1921
Second Edition, February, 1921
CONTENTS
PART I
WHAT IS AMERICA?
CHAPTER PAGE
I The Promise of 1776 7
II The Course of Empire 14