5783X3 Mainstream of America Series edited by Lewis Gannett. Doubleday & Company, Garden City: 1957. 369 pages. Hardcover with dustjacket in protective mylar cover. Fair condition. Library discard. An account of the great accomplishments and the magnificent failures of the visionaries who sought to create what they could not find in America. In these pages are the stories of Sylvester Graham, who campaigned against "adulterated" bread but only succeeded in having a cracker named for him; of Orson Fowler, who made a fortune exploiting phrenology; of George Evans, who conceived the Homestead Act; of Henry George, who propounded the idea of a single tax, on land; and, among the many others, of Dorothea Dix, who struggled to improve the asylums of the mentally ill. Includes an Index. $6.10USD
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