What I saw in America
By: G.K. Chesterton ; introduction by Simon Newman.
Publisher: Anthem Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 257
ISBN-13: 9781843313007
Subjects: Chesterton, G. K. -- 1874-1936 -- Travel -- United States; National characteristics, American; United States -- Description and travel; United States -- Social life and customs -- 1918-1945; United States -- Civilization -- 1918-1945
Notes: "First published in the UK by Dodd, Mead, and Company, 1922"--T.p. verso.
Table of contents: title: What is America?; title: A meditation in a New York hotel; title: A meditation in Broadway; title: Irish and other interviewers; title: Some American cities; title: In the American country; title: The American business man; title: Presidents and problems; title: Prohibition in fact and fancy; title: Fads and public opinion; title: The extraordinary American; title: The Republican in the ruins; title: Is the Atlantic narrowing?; title: Lincoln and lost causes; title: Wells and the world state; title: A new Martin Chuzzlewit; title: The spirit of America; title: The spirit of England; title: The future of democracy.