{"product_id":"our-countrys-future-or-great-national-questions","title":"Our Country's Future: or, Great National Questions","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eEmbossed pictorial cloth, 12mo. Approx. 150 pages of the 638-page work. Very Good with heavy rubbing around the edges, light toning throughout. Pink summary tags still bound in; 8 ruled leaves for subscribers at rear with 9 people signed up.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eAn exciting and helpful format, the pink slips provide punchy summaries of each chapter intended to be removed by the salesman after he'd learned the talking points. Among the chapters not represented in the sample book are, “The Indian: He has stopped fighting—Let us stop robbing him,” “Annexation—We don’t want the earth,” and “Our country first and foremost.” It champions certain religious figures and topics like temperance and divorce, but also represents some progressive attitudes on women’s labor (it’s as good as men’s) and racial equality (it promises to dispel Southern prejudice). It also equates laboring conditions in company towns to slavery. On American humor: “We joke about everything. This does not mean that we make fun of everything…” (561) \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Habberton, John [salesman samples]","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46338640380054,"sku":"Q2284","price":175.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0315\/9778\/9229\/files\/APC_7666.jpg?v=1776096874","url":"https:\/\/alsobooksbooks.com\/products\/our-countrys-future-or-great-national-questions","provider":"Haec City \/ Also Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}