America's Economic Supremacy

by Brooks Adams

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First edition

Publisher's original panelled brown cloth, gilt-lettered on spine. Ink manuscript signature from 1901 on inside pastedown Scion of an American political dynasty, the historian Brooks Adams was nevertheless an unyielding critic of the American economy and political system. His insightful Jeremiads were popular in his day, but unlike Veblen, Sinclair, and other Progressive-era voices, he is now little read. First edition, second printing of a forgotten classic.

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