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What I saw in America / G.K. Chesterton ; introduction by Simon Newman.

Title
What I saw in America / G.K. Chesterton ; introduction by Simon Newman.
Author
Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith), 1874-1936
Publication
New York : Anthem Press, 2007.

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Description
xx, 257 p. : ill.; 21 cm.
Series Statement
Anthem popular American history
Subject
  • 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
Note
  • "First published in the UK by Dodd, Mead, and Company, 1922"--T.p. verso.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
What is America? -- A meditation in a New York hotel -- A meditation in Broadway -- Irish and other interviewers -- Some American cities -- In the American country -- The American business man -- Presidents and problems -- Prohibition in fact and fancy -- Fads and public opinion -- The extraordinary American -- The Republican in the ruins -- Is the Atlantic narrowing? -- Lincoln and lost causes -- Wells and the world state -- A new Martin Chuzzlewit -- The spirit of America -- The spirit of England -- The future of democracy.
ISBN
  • 9781843313007 (pbk.)
  • 1843313006 (pbk.)
LCCN
^^2007050840
OCLC
185095430
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library