The Deluge
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By David Graham Phillips 16 Apr, 2020
When Napoleon was about to crown himself so I have somewhere read - they submitted to him the royal genealogy they had faked up for him. He crumpled the parchment and flung it in the face of the Chief herald, or whoever it was. My line, said he, dat ... Read more
When Napoleon was about to crown himself so I have somewhere read - they submitted to him the royal genealogy they had faked up for him. He crumpled the parchment and flung it in the face of the Chief herald, or whoever it was. My line, said he, dates from Monte notte. And so I say, my line dates from the campaign that completed and established my fame - from Wild Week. I shall not pause to recite the details of the obscurity from which I emerged. It would be an interesting, a romantic story; but it is a familiar story, also, in this land which Lincoln so finely and so fully described when he said: The republic is opportunity.  Less
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  • 2010-09-09
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David Graham Phillips (October 31, 1867 – January 24, 1911) was an American novelist and journalist of the muckraker tradition. Phillips was born in Madison, Indiana. After graduating from high scho...
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