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Excerpt from The Cinder Buggy: A Fable in Iron, and Steel The town has nothing to sell except the finest wrought iron in the world. As the quality of this iron is historic and the form of it a standard muck bar for use in further manufacture you order it from afar at a price based on what is current in Pittsburgh. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.c...

Trieste Publishing has a massive catalogue of classic book titles. Our aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood the test of time. The many thousands of books in our collection have been sourced from libraries and private collections around the world.The titles that Trieste Publishing has chosen to be part of the collection have been scanned to simulate the original. O...

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Excerpt from The Driver And now, by the timbre and volume Of the cheer ing, you recognize the Commander. He rides. Sit ting so still and distant beside a negro driver in a buggy drawn by two mares he is disappointing to the eye. There is nothing Obviously heroic about him. He wears spectacles. Above a thin, down-growing mustache the face is that Of a man Of ideas and action, the lower features, especially the mouth, de note a shy, secretive, ...

The burden of Europe's private debt to this country is now greater than the burden of her war debt, and the war debt, with arrears of interest, is greater than it was the day the peace was signed. And it is not Europe alone. Debt was the economic terror of the world when the war ended. How to pay it was the colossal problem.-from "Cosmology of the Bubble"The names of the players are different, but these cautionary essays about massive national...

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Excerpt from The Blue Wound He seemed not to know how night parted the days. He behaved as one who required neither food nor sleep. The telegraphers left him there at 2 A.M. The first down of the editorial crowd at 12 o'clock noon found him going still. When he was not in a spasm of conflict with the typewriter he was either beating his breast or embracing it, alternately, as one would think, threatening or wheedling the untransferred thought...

Excerpt from Ouroboros or the Mechanical Extension of Mankind One story Of us is continuous. It is the story of our struggle to recapture the Garden of Eden, meaning by that a state of existence free from the doom of toil. 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-o...

Excerpt from The Cinder Buggy: A Fable in Iron, and SteelThe town has nothing to sell except the finest wrought iron in the world. As the quality of this iron is historic and the form of it a standard muck bar for use in further manufacture you order it from afar at a price based on what is current in Pittsburgh.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis...

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2009 reprint of 1932 edition. Garet Garrett was born in 1878 in Illinois. By 1903, he had become a well known writer for the old New York Sun. In 1916, at the age of 38, Garrett became the executive editor of the New York Tribune, after having worked as a financial writer for The New York Times, The Saturday Evening Post, and The Wall Street Journal. From 1920 to 1933, his primary focus was on writing books. Between 1920 and 1932 Garrett wrote...

Who started World War One? That is the all encompassing question Garet Garrett, accomplished economist, asks in this classic book from 1921. The amazing thing about this book, apart from its insightfullness into what or who really started World War One, and knowledge of World history, is the amazing predictions Garrett makes about the impending rise of Japan and the resurgence of Germany, leading to further conflicts. Two amazing predictions t...

The Driver is a classic novel, original written in the 1920s by famous economist of the period, Garet Garrett. It tells the story of a well-known and widely criticised entrepreneur who takes over a failing railway and turns it into a hugely successful business, along with the major boost it gives the wider economy. a classic in the tale of how misunderstood the role of entrepreneurs in our lives is, and the challenges they face to achieve.

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The names of the players are different, but these cautionary essays about massive national debt-written in the long wake of World War I and as the Great Depression was starting to make its horrible power fully known-are still fully applicable today. A powerful libertarian voice of the early 20th century, Garet Garrett, writing originally in the Saturday Evening Post, warned about the extension of American credit to a Europe staggering under a ...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

In 1939 much of the world was at war. In the United States, President Franklin D. Roosevelt believed America eventually would be forced to join the conflict. F.D.R. worked to rally citizens and Congress to the cause. But not everyone agreed with the president's beliefs or methods. In many respects Roosevelt's situation was very similar to problems faced by recent American presidents, including the present administration. Garet Garrett, editori...