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Unread and unopened! Because he has the newspaperman's flair for unearthing facts, the experience to arrange them in proper order, and the courage and honesty to face their meaning, Garet Garrett has become the most influential critic of the American welfare state. Born in Illinois, in 1878, by twenty-five he was a staff writer for the New York Sun. In thirteen years he had advanced to executive editorship of the New York Tribune, having progressed from featured financial writer with the New York Times, the Evening Post, the Wall Street Journal, and the editorship of the New York Times Annalist. At thirty-eight he retired from the newspaper business, to devote himself to free-lance writing, his brilliantly epigrammatic, hard-hitting factuality having gained him a wide popularity. Between 1920 and 1932 he published eight books and a number of widely circulated articles on financial and economic matters. With the advent of the New Deal, Garrett vigorously attacked the economic and social measures which it propounded. Since his articles appeared largely in the Saturday Evening Post, and attracted widespread comment, in 1940 he became editorial writer in chief for that influential magazine. Garrett saw, behind the apparent fatuities of the political times, that a tremendous moral change had occurred; that American idealism and independence had given way. Leaving the Post in 1942 he produced two books: On the Wings of Debt in 1943, and A Time Is Born, in 1944. Having crystallized his thinking, he also published, in 1944, the incredibly acute and incisive monograph, THE REVOLUTION WAS, and assumed editorà  à  à  à Âship of the magazine American Affairs, from which he only recently-in 1950-retired. Living quietly on his farm in Tuckahoe, New Jersey, with his wife, Garrett continues to deal with the crux of the present situation: the moral upheaval in American living, of which this latest analysis is the fruit. Surprisingly, for a man so accomplished in literature, and so engrossed with momentous questions, he is an eager mechanic in wood and iron. He forges wrought-iron articles in his home workshop and makes furniture. Seller Inventory # 880058
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Title: Ex America
Publisher: The Caxton Printers
Publication Date: 1952
Binding: Paperback
Condition: As New
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