Excerpt from Adventures in Reading: Current Books, 1934John mcconaughy's Who Rules America is a study Of graft and political corruption in the federal government, showing that the people have been betrayed by the powers of greed and organ ized wealth since the earliest days of the Republic. Back Of the ideals of a Washington, back of the passionate democracy of the much maligned Aaron Burr, back of Jefferson, back Of Lincoln, back of all 'our great figures, has lurked the figure of greed ready to smash through and rob our people. For practically every graft in the present a parallel is found in the past. The book is all Of one color, black, but it does enable us to feel that the revelations of recent iniquity are not unprecedented, and perhaps that may be of some help in dealing with the present situation.To turn to a brighter picture, President Roosevelt's On Our Way sets forth through his speeches and executive orders the fundamentals Of his planning for national recovery, making clear that allof the proposals and all Of the legislation since the Fourth Day Of March have not been just a collection Of haphazard schemes, but rather the orderly component parts Of a connected logical whole. Charles Merz says, The essentially experimental char acter of the administration's program stands out unmistakably in' the record of this first adventurous year. NO less evident is the genius Of the President both for invention and for compromise, his Obvious devotion to his task, his high spirits and his untiring courage.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.