@booklet {7867, title = {"John Smith"}, howpublished = {Fun}, volume = {17}, year = {1893}, note = {

Rpt. as \"John Smith, Liberator (From a Newspaper of the Far Future).\"\ The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce. Volume 1\ (New York: Neale Pub. Co., 1909), 215-22. Rpt. (New York: Gordian Press, 1966), 1: 215-22; 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), 88-90.

}, month = {May 10, 1893}, pages = {199}, abstract = {

Utopian satire. The future has a very inaccurate version of the past. Refers to the current Smithocratic form of government, but it is never clarified beyond being a monarchy. Democracy is considered an odd aspect of the past together with women being free.

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