Excerpt from U. S. Stories: Regional Stories From the Forty-Eight States His questions, of course, were rhetorical. He expected no one to dis agree With him, and no one did. When Sydney Smith asked those ques tions America still was provincial. A little more than a century later, it is a great world force. And today all his questions would seem laugh able. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books.

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