Alvin Toffler

War and Anti-War (1993)

From the Introduction

THIS BOOK is about wars and anti-wars to come. It is for whose face has been half ripped away by explosives, and for his mother staring with glazed eyes at what is left. It is for all the innocents of tomorrow who will both kill and die for reasons they do not understand. It is a b...

Frederick Franklin Schrader

1683-1920: The Fourteen Points and What Became of Them (1920)

With the ending of the war many books will be released dealing with various questions and phases of the great struggle, some of them perhaps impartial, but the majority written to make propaganda for foreign nations with a view to rendering us dissatisfi...

Charles August Lindbergh

Why Is Your Country at War and What Happens to You After the War And Related Subjects (1917)

To Readers:

Materially connected with the conditions as they exist now, is my book bearing the title, "Banking and Currency and The Money Trust," published 1918, in which is the following prefatory statement:

The market...

Vincent Cartwright Vickers

Economic Tribulation (1941)

“In so far as we are able, we must try to assist our fellow-men to understand. This we can do fearlessly ; for that which is mistaken or false will carry no weight and will be lost and forgotten, whilst that which is true will prevail.”

NOTE

VINCENT CARTWRIGHT VICKERS was born on...

Cornelius Carl Veith

Citadels of Chaos (1949)

Introduction

How would you like to be in the dry goods business when the length of a yard would be subject to constant change, containing thirty inches one day and forty inches the next day?

How would you like to be in the grocery business when the weight of a pound would vary from time to tim...