THE FUTURE IN AMERICA - A Search After Realities by Wells, H. G - 1987

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987. 194 pp. This re-issues the 1906 Harper edition. Gray boards lettered in gilt on the spine. Lightly rubbed on the corners of the dustjacket; no interior markings. H. G. Wells went to the United States determinded to find out not what America was or had been, but what it would become. He contemplated with deep seriousness the future of America, of the immigrants on Ellis Island, the child workers sleeping on the subway, the political bosses in Chicago, the teachers and students at the universities and the still-huddled masses of the lower East Side. The Chapters are: The Prophetic Habit of Mind; En Route; Growth Invincible; The Economic Process; Wome Aspects of American Wealth; Certain Workers; Corruption; The Immigrant; State-Blinders; Two Studies in Disappointment; The Tragedy of Colour; The Mind of a Modern State; Culture; At Washington; and The Envoy.. First Printing - First Thus. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Book.