The Future Is Ours (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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The Mississippi River and the myriad streams which con tribute to its system, draining two thirds of the continental United States, is the most important single fact in our national life. The Great Valley is not only the largest habitable river basin in the temperate zone but it has been settled by a mix ture of vigorous peoples in a high stage of civilization, peoples with ideas and institutions, traditions and habits, developed under entirely different geographical conditions. The result is perhaps the sharpest geo - political tension in recorded his tory. Since the epoch when the advance of the glaciers forced men to tame fire as a condition for their survival, there has been nothing like it. We must invent the political and social equivalent of fire if we are to survive. For the numerous Gov ernment studies and reports which deal with the problems of the Great Valley can be summarized into two challenging statements.

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