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Michigan Avenue, Chicago, from the steps of the Art Institute.
THE VALLEY OF DEMOCRACY
BY MEREDITH NICHOLSON
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY WALTER TITTLE
NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS 1919
Copyright, 1917, 1918, by Charles Scribner’s Sons Published September, 1918 Reprinted November, December 1918

TO MY CHILDREN ELIZABETH, MEREDITH, AND LIONEL IN TOKEN OF MY AFFECTION AND WITH THE HOPE THAT THEY MAY BE FAITHFUL TO THE HIGHEST IDEALS OF AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP