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Wagner Support SF Reviews. Book cover art by Scott McKowan left. In my parents’ small hometown, there was a short-lived but nicely appointed museum on Texas’ early settler history, where an inordinate portion of the display space was given over to old currency. Paper money, as I’m sure everyone knows, was originally just scrip. Your boss or foreman or C. It wasn’t long before people just began trading the paper money. It’s as if the artists commissioned to design them were, to a man, making money book review terry pratchett wannabe Rembrandts whose life ambition was to have space in the Louvre and were doing the next best thing. Seems odd to me, the idea of going to a general store and handing over the equivalent of a miniature post-Renaissance masterwork in exchange for a sack of potatoes.

Upton Sinclair wrote The Jungle to expose the appalling working conditions in the meat-packing industry. His description of diseased, rotten, and contaminated meat shocked the public and led to new federal food safety laws. Before the turn of the 20th century, a major reform movement had emerged in the United States. Known as progressives, the reformers were reacting to problems caused by the rapid growth of factories and cities. Progressives at first concentrated on improving the lives of those living in slums and in getting rid of corruption in government. By the beginning of the new century, progressives had started to attack huge corporations like Standard Oil, U. Steel, and the Armour meat-packing company for their unjust practices.