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Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI voice. Progress and Poverty, first published in 1879, was American political economist Henry George's most popular book. It explores why the economy of the midtolate 1800s had seen a simultaneous economic growth and growth in poverty. The book's appeal was in its balance of moral and economic arguments, challenging the popular notion that the poor, through uncontrolled population growth, were responsible...
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Claude Wheeler, the sensitive, aspiring protagonist of this beautifully written Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, resembles the youngest son of a peculiarly American fairy tale. His fortune is ready-made for him, but he refuses to settle for it. Alienated from his parents, all but rejected by his wife, and dissatisfied with farming, Claude is an idealist without an ideal to cling to. It's only when America enters the First World War that Claude finds...