Democracy in Progress: An American Testament in Four Centuries of Literature, Part 1Thomas Matthews Pearce University of New Mexico Press, 1943 - 368 pages |
Contents
INTRODUCTIONA testament is a covenant or a declaration | 1 |
Behold Our Mother Earth is lying here | 13 |
When our people were fed out of the common sto re | 20 |
Copyright | |
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