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The End Becomes The Beginning

Thursday, August 30th, 2007

Via Megan McArdle’s shiny, new Atlantic blog, Brad DeLong has an absolutely brilliant post about early 20th century America. You really should read the whole thing, it’s pretty stunning. The thing that sticks out most is the absolute material poverty in which essentially everyone lived.
Few households in Homestead in 1900 had […]

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