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after the Civil War, the American post bellum period lasted from 1866 to 1913
1899The Theory of the Leisure ClassBut while it may be true that the cap and gown, and the more strenuous observance of scholastic proprieties which came with them, were floated in on this post-bellum tidal wave of reversion to barbarism…1913An AutobiographyThere was one powerful leader—a burly, forceful man, of admirable traits—who had, however, been trained in the post-bellum school of business and politics, so that his attitude towards life, quite unconsciously, reminded me a little of Artemus Ward's view of the Tower of London—'If I like it, I'll buy it.'Labels: Theodore Roosevelt, Thorstein Veblen
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