Skinny Island
“When I started it, thirty years ago exactly, on New Year's Day of 1845, I had the grandiose ambition of becoming the historiographer of our young republic. My considerable family connection in Manhattan, my experience in banking and foreign trade and my ventures into public life, climaxing in a term as lieutenant governor of the state, were all to have provided vantage points from which to view and describe the evolution of our great experiment in democracy. And haven't they? I have seen riots ...and battles and terrible urban fires; I have been friendly with some of our bravest soldiers and noblest statesmen, and now at the age of seventy-two, only three years younger than our century, I can look back to a grandsire who was a friend of John Jay and Hamilton and forward to a new century that will see America take her rightful place as the leading nation of the planet. My reader, if reader I ever have, will surely understand why Adrian Peltz at one point of his life considered himself uniquely qualified to be the American Saint-Simon.MoreLess
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