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One hundred years after the declaration that all men are created equal, there began to gather in Newport a colony of the rich, determined to show that some Americans were conspicuously more equal than others.


Source[edit]

  • Alistair Cooke (2002). Alistair Cooke's America. Carroll & Graf Publishers. p. 267. ISBN 0786710365.