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You Can't Win*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 February 2011

Edward C. Kirkland
Affiliation:
Bowdoin College

Extract

Charles Francis Adams, JR., one of my favorite characters, preserved with youthful pride the reactions by letter to one of his earliest essays for the Atlantic. One, from an unidentifiable correspondent in Cambridge, expressed a considerable degree of disenchantment with the author's effort.

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Articles
Copyright
Copyright © The Economic History Association 1954

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