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William D. Miller begins this evocative study by recalling the marvelous aircraft and automobiles he saw as a small boy in Jacksonville, Florida, just after World War I, and the summer trips he took with his to a camp house where, living in the of an undefiled nature, he experienced the of family (pp. xi-xii). Reflecting on the guileless intrusion of technology into such natural places of and power, Miller notes what he knows now but could not then-that lynching was also commonplace, forming, like the frenzy of the Great War itself, a corrosive counterpoint to the concept of social harmony underlying Woodrow Wilson's vision of international community as well as William Miller's bliss (pp. xi-xii). Mechanization and unreason thus undermined the period's deep if childish craving for community, either subverting it with restlessness and tension or twisting it into the false menacing community of mob rage (pp. xiii-xv). Calling his book with a point (p. x), Miller uses President Wilson's e
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William D. Miller begins this evocative study by recalling the marvelous aircraft and automobiles he saw as a small boy in Jacksonville, Florida, just after World War I, and the summer trips he took with his to a camp house where, living in the of an undefiled nature, he experienced the of family (pp. xi-xii). Reflecting on the guileless intrusion of technology into such natural places of and power, Miller notes what he knows now but could not then-that lynching was also commonplace, forming, like the frenzy of the Great War itself, a corrosive counterpoint to the concept of social harmony underlying Woodrow Wilson's vision of international community as well as William Miller's bliss (pp. xi-xii). Mechanization and unreason thus undermined the period's deep if childish craving for community, either subverting it with restlessness and tension or twisting it into the false menacing community of mob rage (pp. xiii-xv). Calling his book with a point (p. x), Miller uses President Wilson's e
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