RECENT AMERICA: a History of the United States Since 1900

by Parkes, Henry Bamford

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NY:: Crowell,, 1941.. Hardcover; light shelf-wear at bottom edges of covers.. + appendix, index. Parkes believes Teddy Roosevelt began a new U.S.epoch; he traces the economic, political, intellectual, & foreign policy history 1900-40; then concludes that among our problems were: `a complex economic system--international in scope--beyond the control of any individual or group of individuals...one-eighth of the population owned seven-eighths of the wealth...the people of the United States [have to] husband their surviving natural resources...'