Arthur Bird 3 hr 4 min read

A confident vision of an American future in which the United States, by peaceful destiny, comes to govern the entire Western Hemisphere under the banner of its Constitution.

Arthur Bird's 1899 novel is an expansionist utopian prophecy of American dominance and progress. Earnest, revealing, of its imperial age. Read it for a turn-of-the-century vision of manifest destiny carried to its logical extreme, a telling artifact of its era.

In its time

Published in 1899, during the 1890s, wells arrives.

Reading it

3 hr 4 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).