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Excerpt from Driftwood: Being Papers on Old-Time American Towns and Some Old People Uring a long and somewhat busy life, filled more with' petty annoyances than ordinarily falls to the lot of others, books have ever been to me a solace from care. I have ranged somewhat widely over the fields of literature, but the great masters of English prose and poetry have been my especial delight. I have sought in these closing days to repay the debt I owe, by setting down here and elsewhere, something that may, perhaps, contribute to others the pleasure I have thus received. These papers have accumulated in my hands, gathered from time to time, from the flowing stream of life; and with the hope that they may prove interesting and instructive to others, who may pick them up, I have thrown them back again upon the same rapidly passing water. Mistakes there doubtless are in them; but the author relies upon the charity of a generous public to appreciate the spirit, in which they were written, and are now published. These old men led hard lives and did a good work and are entitled to be remembered; and these old villages, with the traditions that gather about them, are interesting. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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NATIONAL BEST SELLER • The basis for the HBO documentary now streaming on HBO Max For five years, James and Deborah Fallows have travelled across America in a single-engine prop airplane. Visiting dozens of towns, the America they saw is acutely conscious of its problems—from economic dislocation to the opioid scourge—but it is also crafting solutions, with a practical-minded determination at dramatic odds with the bitter paralysis of national politics. At times of dysfunction on a national level, reform possibilities have often arisen from the local level. The Fallowses describe America in the middle of one of these creative waves. Their view of the country is as complex and contradictory as America itself, but it also reflects the energy, the generosity and compassion, the dreams, and the determination of many who are in the midst of making things better. Our Towns is the story of their journey—and an account of a country busy remaking itself.
Excerpt from Our Town: The Story of the Growth and Development of a Typical American Town First, our many residents who have contributed toward this booklet-thrifty and prudent as they are would not be satisfied with anything of lesser quality. That we know. Second, our prospective residents should be given the whole picture. The most gifted conversationalist often fails to do this, to say nothing of the poorer descriptive ability of most of us. When that happens, as it generally does, the injustice is worked, not upon you or me, but upon Libertyville. So we shall try here to give you the complete story in words and pictures of this typical American town - typical, we say, because it has a main street and a village park with a library, and small industries and substantial homes and surf rounding farmland; yet distinctive (and this is why we are inspired to publish Our Town because it offers a philosophy, a way of living, that makes for the more happy, more fruitful life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from The Other Americans: The Cities, the Countries, and Especially the People of South America If the line which your eye takes looking down the hill from Fifth Avenue toward Madison Square were con tinued far enough straight south, it would hit South America near the west coast of Peru. Practically all of the continent would be east of that line - from there to Cape St. Roque is as far as from New York to San Francisco; from Cartagena in the Caribbean to Punta Arenas in Patagonia is as far as from Key West to the North Pole. There are nearly half a million more square miles within those extremes than in all of North America - and people ask, What kind of weather do they have down there! On the Fourth of July in Bolivia I saw a new railroad opened in a whirling snow storm, and two mornings afterward the thermometer on the hotel porch stood within four degrees of zero; a month later in Rio, in more or less the same latitude, one wilted in a muggy heat as oppressive as any we have in the dog-days here in New York. No more can one generalize about the people or their countries. In Bahia, on the Brazilian coast, probably not more than one man Out of ten is white; in Peruvian towns, in a corresponding latitude on the west coast, a negro is less often seen than in Boston. There is as much dif ference between the lazy lotus Caribbean coast and Tierra del Fuego as between Mandalay and the Straits of Kamchatka. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from A History of the American People, Vol. 3 of 5 The surrender of the Earl of Cornwallis at York town closed the career in America Of the only British general who had shown commanding gifts in the field. It closed also the revolution itself. The southern cam paign had been undertaken at the wish and upon the plan of Cornwallis. He knew how pronounced division of opinion was in the South, and how certain a hold could be got there upon the sympathy of scores of men who could be of the utmost service to an army in the field. He knew how important it was to close the south ern ports, and particularly the Chesapeake, in order to shut out the supplies that came steadily in from over sea. He believed that an effectual blow struck from the south at Virginia, after the reduction of the far southern ports, would secure for the British an al most commanding position oh the continent. Had Clinton helped him promptly, instead of grudging him aid; had he been enabled to move rapidly and in force as he had planned, he might have accomplished. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from American Cities: Their Methods of Business The great problem of city promotion is just this new need to make the city an efficient partner with its busi ness rather than an undirected force acting on that business. That problem is to make use of the city with its multitude of possibilities in what H. G. Wells calls the every day drama of human getting. But business success, of course, is no more the whole field of city promotion than the individual income is the whole problem of the individual. Every science and art has a relation to city development. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.