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AMERICA
FACES THE FUTURE

EDITED BY

CHARLES A. BEARD

Co-author of ' The Rise of American Civilization' and ' The
American Leviathan'; sometime President of the American
Political Science Association

BOSTON AND NEW YORK

HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY

The Riverside Press Cambridge

1932

-iii-

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Publication information: Book title: America Faces the Future. Contributors: Charles A. Beard - Editor. Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company. Place of publication: Boston. Publication year: 1932. Page number: iii.

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Table of contents Table of contents

Title Page iii
Prefatory Note v
Contents vii
Part I- The New Intellectual and Moral Climate 1
Chapter I- Challenges to the Social Order 3
Chapter II- A Planless World by Nicholas Murray Butler 11
Chapter III- The Call of the Protestant Churches 20
Chapter IV- The Voice of Capital and Labor 29
Chapter V- Must We Reduce Our Standard of Living? by William Trufant Foster and Waddill Catchings 44
Chapter VI- Prophets without Foresight by Edward Angly 57
Chapter VII- Down and out in Detroit by Charles R. Walker 70
Chapter VIII- Can Capitalism Be Saved? by Andr Maurois 86
Chapter IX- The Responsibility of Bankers by James Truslow Adams 97
Part II- Blue-Prints for a Planned Economy 115
Chapter I- A ''Five-Year Plan'' for America by Charles A. Beard 117
Chapter II- Unemployment by Nicholas Murray Butler 141
Chapter III- Stabilization of Industry by Gerard Swope 160
Chater IV the Public Reaction to the Swope Plan 186
Chapter V- Planning Proposals of the Committee on Continuity of Business and Employment of the United States Chamber of Commerce 196
Chapter VI- The American Federation of Labor Looks Forward to Planning 265
Chapter VII- A Demand for State Action on a Security Wage by John T. Flynn 282
Chapter IX- The Advance of Large-Scale Agriculture by Walter B. Pitkin 311
Chapter X- Actualities of Agricultural Planning by Franklin D. Roosevelt 325
Chapter XI- The State Plan of Governor Philip F. la Follette 351
Chapter XII- President Hoovers Plan 386
Chapter XIII- The Rationality of Planned Economy by Charles A. Beard 400
Appendix 411

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