@booklet {175, title = {"Ashes of the Beacon. An Historical Monograph Written in 4930"}, howpublished = {New York American }, year = {1905}, note = {

Rpt. in the San Francisco Examiner (February 26, 1905): 44; in The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce. Volume 1 (New York: Neale Pub. Co., 1909), 17-86. Rpt. (New York: Gordian Press, 1966), 1: 17-86; and in The Fall of the Republic and Other Political Satires. Ed. S.T. Joshi and David E. Schultz (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2000), 3-31. The version in The Collected Works incorporates \“The Jury in Ancient America: An Historical Sketch Written in the Year of Grace 3687. Translated by Ambrose Bierce.\” Cosmopolitan 39.4 (August 1905): 384-88; and \“Insurance in Ancient America: Translated from the Work of a Future Historian.\” Cosmopolitan Magazine 41.5 (September 1906): 555-57.\ 

}, month = {February 19, 1905}, pages = {22}, abstract = {

Satire on the United States from the point of view of a future society with a weak understanding of U.S. history. Self-government considered a contradiction in terms. Satire on politics, the legal system as a whole and the jury system in particular, women, religion, labor relations, and other subjects.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Ambrose [Gwinett] Bierce (1842-1914?)} }