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An American Dilemma

Gunnar Myrdal

Form
Form Non-fiction
Year
Year 1944
Pages
Pages 1500

Carnegie went looking for a stranger. It wanted a scholar from a country with no colonies and no share in the guilt, so it found a Swedish economist and asked him to explain America to itself.

Americans of all national origins, classes, regions, creeds, and colors, have something in common: a social ethos, a political creed.
An American Dilemma, Gunnar Myrdal

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