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America, 1847
Adams, Mildred | April 24, 1948 issue

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The article focuses on a book "A Sarmiento Anthology," by Domingo Faustino Sarmiento. This book is helpful for students seeking to know what the United States looked like one hundred years ago. The book's nostalgic charm is compelling, but this is more than the verbal equivalent of a collection of Currier and Ives prints. Sarmiento, who became President of Argentina and was perhaps prouder of his reputation as an educator, spoke from the vantage point of one brought up amid the dust of empire. His comments on the effort of South American countries to find a form of government more admirable than the one under which they had spent centuries still explain many things about his continent.

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SARMIENTO Anthology, A (Book); UNITED States -- History; SARMIENTO, Dormingo Faustino; EDUCATORS; BOOKS; UNITED States
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