Our common country
Subtitle: mutual good will in America
By: by Warren G. Harding ; edited by Warren G. Harding III ; with an introduction by Robert H. Ferrell.
Contributors: Harding, Warren G., III.
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Columbia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 142
Subjects: National characteristics, American.; United States -- Civilization -- 1918-1945.; United States -- Social conditions -- 1918-1932.; United States -- Politics and government -- 1921-1923.
Description: "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 case the minds of troubled and confused Americans, President Harding tried to provide them with inspiration. Addressing different groups of the populace - mothers, veterans, patriots, farmers, businessmen, the press - he sought to send a consistent personal message of reassurance."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Originally published: New York : Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1921.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword to the 1921 edition / by Frederick E. Schortemeier; title: Reconsecration to God; title: Business and government; title: The inspiration of labor; title: American agriculture; title: What of our children; title: The press and the public; title: The theater; title: American education; title: The immigrant; title: Conservation and development; title: Social justice; title: The value of play; title: Fraternity; title: The village; title: Two wars; title: The meaning of the armistice; title: The federal constitution; title: The national conscience.