The Forgotten Man and Other Essays by William Graham Sumner (1840 – 1910)
Genre(s): *Non-fiction, Essays & Short Works

Read by: Chad Jackson, Tatiana Chichilla, madhushree, Immanuel Satya, arbycoors, Wayne Cooke, mleigh, Allan R. Tate, Steve Knox, Kerry Adams, Dave Capper, Andrew Huguelet, Leslie Frank, Kazbek in English
Cover design by Annise.

Parts:
Part 1
Part 3

Chapters:
00:00:00 – 23 – Strikes and the Industrial Organization (1887)
00:06:40 – 24 – Trusts and Trades-unions (1888)
00:16:40 – 25 – An Old ‘Trust’ (1889)
00:23:49 – 26 – Shall Americans Own Ships? (1881)
00:44:37 – 27 – Politics in America, 1776-1876 (1876) Part 1
01:15:35 – 28 – Politics in America, 1776-1876 (1876) Part 2
01:49:14 – 29 – Politics in America, 1776-1876 (1876) Part 3
02:21:29 – 30 – Politics in America, 1776-1876 (1876) Part 4
02:56:40 – 31 – The Administration of Andrew Jackson (1880) Part 1
03:28:46 – 32 – The Administration of Andrew Jackson (1880) Part 2
03:57:05 – 33 – The Commercial Crisis of 1837 (1877 or 1878) Part 1
04:22:53 – 34 – The Commercial Crisis of 1837 (1877 or 1878) Part 2
04:50:17 – 35 – The Science of Sociology (1882)
05:03:09 – 36 – Integrity in Education
05:28:27 – 37 – Discipline
06:06:22 – 38 – The Coöperative Commonwealth Part 1
06:20:55 – 39 – The Coöperative Commonwealth Part 2
06:39:41 – 40 – The Forgotten Man (1883) Part 1

Sumner’s popular essays were to give him a wider audience to distribute his anti-imperialism, his advocacy of free markets and the gold standard. He also had a long term influence over modern American conservatism. This is the final collection of his essays and is edited by Albert Galloway Keller. It concludes with The Forgotten Man where Sumner argued that, in his day, politics was being subverted by those proposing a ‘measure of relief for the evils which have caught public attention. (Summary by Michele Eaton )

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