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What I Saw in America — G. K. Chesterton

What I Saw in America

G. K. Chesterton

  • Travel
  • Book language: English
  • 207 pages

A collection of travel essays in which G. K. Chesterton records his impressions of America. He reflects on American democracy, cities, business life, Prohibition, and the contrasts between the American and English spirit. Worth reading for its witty, paradoxical observations on a rising nation.

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Text source: gutenberg.org · The work is in the public domain.

Contents

  1. What I saw in America
  2. Printed in Great Britain by T. and A. Constable Ltd. at the Edinburgh University Press
  3. Contents
  4. What is America?
  5. A Meditation in a New York Hotel
  6. A Meditation in Broadway
  7. Irish and other Interviewers
  8. Some American Cities
  9. In the American Country
  10. The American Business Man
  11. Presidents and Problems
  12. Prohibition in Fact and Fancy
  13. Fads and Public Opinion
  14. The Extraordinary American
  15. The Republican in the Ruins
  16. Is the Atlantic Narrowing?
  17. Lincoln and Lost Causes
  18. Wells and the World State
  19. A New Martin Chuzzlewit
  20. The Spirit of America
  21. The Spirit of England
  22. The Future of Democracy
  23. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG™ LICENSE

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