Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Young West: A Sequel to Edward Bellamy's Celebrated Novel Looking Backward
I must concede that the people, who are calling me Young West, have some valid excuses for applying that sobriquet. Although I retired from public work many years ago, my physical constitution is yet sufficiently strong to stand the wear and tear, the worries and tribulations of any public office. Neither has my mind lost a particle of its former youthful freshness and vigor. My ideas are those of a young man. Old age has not made me a conservative, as it usually does of men.
In so far my friends are right, I am still Young West.
My life has been crowded with memorable events; good fortune permitted me to contrib ute somewhat to the welfare and progress of the nation, whom I served for a period of more than forty years. I ran through the whole scale of social and public ambition, from the lowest to the highest note. From one public office, I was promoted to the next higher one. Lifted and carried by the good will which my fellow workers bore me, I continued to rise until they intrusted me with the highest o?ice in their gift, the presidency. Even after I returned to private life, as prescribed by law, my advice and counsel was frequently solicited by my successors.
No wonder, therefore, my friends importune me now, as my days are fast ebbing away, to commit to writing the reminiscences of so event ful and so successful a career as has been mine.
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