Exploration & Journeys
What I Saw in America
G. K. Chesterton
2026
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America is the only nation founded on a creed, he says, and then spends the rest of the book working out what that costs. Chesterton toured the States in 1921 on the lecture circuit and wrote the sharpest outsider's account since Tocqueville: the immigration questions, the prohibition, the businessmen, the optimism, the advertising, and a paradox on every page, most of them still true.
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32 chapters
- 1Section 01 - Chapter 01 - Part 1 - What is America19m
- 2Section 02 - Chapter 01 - Part 2 - What is America17m
- 3Section 03 - Chapter 02 - Part 1 - A Meditation in a New York Hotel15m
- 4Section 04 - Chapter 02 - Part 2 - A Meditation in a New York Hotel14m
- 5Section 05 - Chapter 03 - Part 1 - A Meditation in Broadway16m
- 6Section 06 - Chapter 03 - Part 2 - Medidation in Broadway12m
- 7Section 07 - Chapter 04 - Part 1- Irish and Other Interviewers16m
- 8Section 08 - Chapter 04 - Part 2 - Irish and Other Interviewers16m
- 9Section 09 - Chapter 05 - Part 1 - Some American Cities17m
- 10Section 10 - Chapter 05 - Part 2 - Some American Cities15m
- 11Section 11 - Chapter 06 - Part 1 - In the American Country17m
- 12Section 12 - Chapter 06 - Part 2 - In the American Country16m
- 13Section 13 - Chapter 07 - Part 1 - The American Business Man17m
- 14Section 14 - Chapter 07 - Part 2 - The American Business Man16m
- 15Section 15 - Chapter 07 - Part 3 - The American Business Man13m
- 16Section 16 - Chapter 08 - Part 1 - Presidents and Problems12m
- 17Section 17 - Chapter 08 - Part 2 - Presidents and Problems15m
- 18Section 18 - Chapter 08 - Part 3 - Presidents and Problems20m
- 19Section 19 - Chapter 09 - Part 1 - Prohibition in Fact and Fancy16m
- 20Section 20 - Chapter 09 - Part 2 - Prohibition in Fact and Fancy19m
- 21Section 21 - Chapter 10 - Part 1 - Fads and Public Opinions18m
- 22Section 20 - Chapter 10 - Part 2 - Fads and Public Opinion18m
- 23Section 23 - Chapter 11 - The Extraordinary American23m
- 24Section 24 - Chapter 12 - The Republican in the Ruins26m
- 25Section 25 - Chapter 13 - Is the Atlantic Narrowing\?26m
- 26Section 26 - Chapter 14 - Lincoln and Lost Causes23m
- 27Section 27 - Chapter 15 - Part 1 - Wells and the World State18m
- 28Section 28 - Chapter 15 - Part 2 - Wells and the World State19m
- 29Section 29 - Chapter 16 - A New Martin Chuzzlewit27m
- 30Section 39 - Chapter 17 - The Spirit of America26m
- 31Section 31 - Chapter 18 - The Spirit of England28m
- 32Section 32 - Chapter 19 - The Future of Democracy27m
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