Author: Percy Crosby

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-06-02

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 9781330259429

Excerpt from Would Communism Work Out in America? Though you are a British subject, I am an American with every bit of one generation of native heritage. My grandparents, on my father's side, papists to the bone, chanted the rosary every wave of the way to a New York dock until the boat bumped "Amen!" Sure, the grand lady's name had been Miss Cooney, but 'twould be well if you never breathed the name of Irish Catholics for "this is a Protestant country!" My grandmother, Miss Thomas, on my mother's side, was born at sea "under the American flag" my mother always screeched. This was a bit of class distinction that my father could never dodge. It was a priority that was too definite. Had he answered, and if there had been radio cars in those early days, headquarters would have chanted: "Family trouble." And yet, as I look back on those, my early days, it is hard to recall any incident where a desk sergeant indulged himself with biographical data coaxed out of swollen lips. I have rambled on, my only reader, and though a Britisher("beggars musn't be choosers") it will not be long before you're getting on with the book: you shall have plenty of opportunity to lense it out, for each page is a festive board laden with every tidbit which I could gather for your delight. But tarry a while. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.