What I saw in America

by G. K. Chesterton

Overview

Reproduction of the original: What I saw in America by G.K. Chesterton

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783734029899
Publisher:	Outlook Verlag
Publication date:	09/20/2018
Pages:	186
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.56(d)

About the Author

G.K. Chesterton (1874–1936) author of over 80 books, several hundred poems, 200 short stories and 4000 essays.

Simon Newman is Professor in the Department of History at the University of Glasgow. His research interests focus on the social and political history of early America.

Table of Contents

1. What is America? 1
2. A Meditation in a New York Hotel 15
3. A Meditation in Broadway 27
4. Irish and other Interviewers 39
5. Some American Cities 53
6. In the American Country 67
7. The American Business Man 81
8. Presidents and Problems 99
9. Prohibition in Fact and Fancy 119
10. Fads and Public Opinion 133
11. The Extraordinary American 149
12. The Republican in the Ruins 159
13. Is the Atlantic Narrowing? 171
14. Lincoln and Lost Causes 183
15. Wells and the World State 193
16. A New Martin Chuzzlewit 207
17. The Spirit of America 219
18. The Spirit of England 231
19. The Future of Democracy 243