The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World Book 70)

by Robert J. Gordon

Bryce’s The American Commonwealth, a work of evocative historical description, comparison, and analysis, based on the author’s five trips to America in the 1870s and 1880s, in which Bryce painstakingly reproduced the travels of Tocqueville.4