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Our Common Country - Mutual Good Will In America (1921) (Paperback)
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Our Common Country - Mutual Good Will In America (1921) (Paperback)
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Our Common Country is a collection of informal addresses, eighteen
in all, given by Warren G. Harding as president-elect. What makes
these addresses as relevant today as they were back in 1921 is the
mood of the country. Even though World War I is now a distant
memory, with very few participants still alive, today's Americans
have suffered through similar conflicts, from World War II to
Vietnam and beyond. In 1917 when Americans went off to war, the
red, white, and blue flew everywhere. Two million American soldiers
went to France and fifty thousand of them died; the battle of the
Meuse-Argonne was one of the costliest in American history. With
the announcement by America's allies that the United States's
contributions to the war were insignificant compared to their own,
President Wilson's leadership began to collapse. Also, the domestic
economy's boom was turning to a bust and the national debt was
expanding. The general consensus of Americans was that "things had
gone to hell in a handbasket." In an effort to ease the minds of
troubled and confused Americans, President Harding tried to provide
them with inspiration in their lives. Addressing different members
of the populous--mothers, veterans, patriots, farmers, businessmen,
the press--he sought to send each a personal message of
re-assurance. During his administration, he would bring a formal
end to the war by signing the Treaty of Berlin. He would also
establish the Bureau of the Budget, thereby bringing order to the
departmental and bureaucratic requests that had disgraced budget
making for decades. Although the former president was much maligned
after his death, his good works during his term of office speak for
themselves andshow that his concern for his fellow Americans was
not just rhetoric. His strength of character and intelligence are
demonstrated throughout these addresses. Harding spoke to his own
time, yet these addresses speak to our own confusing times as well.
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