The Great War Syndicate

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1889
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Future war story that ends with the suggestion of a eutopia of peace and prosperity. As a war between the U.S. and Britain threatens, a war the U.S. will lose, a syndicate of rich capitalists agrees a contract with the U.S. to conduct the war, which they win by using new technology. Most of the book is about the war and the technology used.

Published Date

1889

Publisher
P.F. Collier
Place Published
New York
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1889 Stockton, Frank R[ichard] (1834-1902). The Great War Syndicate. New York: P.F. Collier. HRC, L, MoU-St, PSt, W3,5239

Future war story that ends with the suggestion of a eutopia of peace and prosperity. As a war between the U.S. and Britain threatens, a war the U.S. will lose, a syndicate of rich capitalists agrees a contract with the U.S. to conduct the war, which they win by using new technology. Most of the book is about the war and the technology used.

Additional Publishers

Rpt. New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1899. Rpt. in The Novels and Stories of Frank R. Stockton. Volume 6 The Great Syndicate, Etc. (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1900), 3-128; and separately Upper Saddle River, NJ: Literature House, 1970.

Author Note

(1834-1902)

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