Manigault, G.:

$225 · Offered by William Reese Company

THE UNITED STATES UNMASKED. A SEARCH INTO THE CAUSES OF THE RISE AND PROGRESS OF THESE STATES, AND AN EXPOSURE OF THEIR PRESENT MATERIAL AND MORAL ... A critical look at the socio-economic conditions of the United States after the Civil War, written by a British observer who seems overall rather bitter about America's boastful reputation. Manigault asserts that American prosperity had been grossly exaggerated, and that the U.S. had reaped temporary riches by wastefully abusing natural resources and "unblushing, political, social, and financial corruption." He includes chapters on "the Negro Question," "the Vast Indebtedness of the Country," "the Cause of the Secession of the Southern States," and the like.

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