Jack Beatty, the author of Age of Betrayal, talks about the poverty, inequality, and corrupt politics that marred America's past and set us on a course toward today

“It is my belief that immigration from Europe will decrease after the war, but that that decrease will not be a menace to our industrial and commercial advancement. In the long run, I believe that it will, instead, be a benefit.”

SUMNER WELLESserved with distinction in our Department of State for twenty-eight years. On his graduation from Harvard he became Secretary of our embassy at Tokyo and then at Buenos Aires. There he began to specialize in the work which was to make him a leader in our Good Neighbor Policy. He was Assistant Chief of Latin American Affairs, Commissioner to the Dominican Republic mediator in the Honduras revolution in 1924, our Ambassador to Cuba at a time of trouble, and our leading delegate to many inter-American conferences. He resigned as Under Secretary of State in 1943.

In 1865, an Illinois-based journalist wrote a scathing report on post-Civil War life in the South