Reprint of William Graham Sumner's popular essay "The Forgotten Man." "He works, he votes, generally he prays--but he always PAYS. All the burdens fall on him, or her, for it is time to remember that the Forgotten Man is not seldom a woman."

This anthology is a thorough introduction to classic literature for those who have not yet experienced these literary masterworks. For those who have known and loved these works in the past, this is an invitation to reunite with old friends in a fresh new format. From Shakespeare's finesse to Oscar Wilde's wit, this unique collection brings together works as diverse and influential as The Pilgrim's Progress and Othello. As an anthology that invites readers to immerse themselves in the masterpieces of the literary giants, it is must-have addition to any library

LARGE PRINT EDITION More at LargePrintLiberty.com. The author, William Graham Sumner, was the great sociologist of late 19th century America, but also a wise observer of economic conditions. In 1874, in the midst of another debate about the future of the American monetary system, he offered this sweeping history of the calamity of paper money in the United States from the Colonial Period to the Civil War. In many ways, it is a popular history in the sense that he hoped it could be read by anyone. What's strike here is his "Austrian" understanding of the relationship of paper money to credit...

A History of Banking in the United States is a massive history from the 1600s to the turn of the 20th century.

With the reprinting of Folkways it seems in place to inform the admirers of this book and of its author concerning the progress of Professor Sumner's work between 1907 and his death, in his seventieth year, in April, 1910. Several articles bearing on the mores, and realizing in part the programme outlined in the last paragraph of the foregoing Preface, have been published: -The Family and Social Change, - in the American Journal of Sociology for March, 1909 (14: 577-591); -Witchcraft, - in the Forum for May, 1909 (41: 410-423); -The Status of Women in Chaldea, Egypt, India, Judea, and Greece...