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What I Saw in America

by Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Let me begin my American impressions with two impressions I had before I went to America. One was an incident and the other an idea; and when taken together they illustrate the attitude I mean. The first principle is that nobody should be ashamed of thinking a thing funny because it is foreign; the second is that he should be ashamed of thinking it wrong because it is funny.”

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English

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English

Published In

1922

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Chesterton wrote around 80 books, several hundred poems, some 200 short stories, 4,000 essays (mostly newspaper columns), and several plays. He was a literary and social critic, historian, playwright,...

Books by Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Chapter 02 Part 1 Medidation in a New York Hotel
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Chapter 03 Part 1 A Meditation in Broadway
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Chapter 04 Part 1 Irish and Other Interviewers
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Chapter 05 Part 1 Some American Cities
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Chapter 05 Part 2 Some American Cities
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Chapter 06 Part 1 In the American Country
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Chapter 06 Part 2 In the American Country
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Chapter 07 Part 1 The American Business Man
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Chapter 07 Part 2 The American Business Man
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Chapter 07 Part 3 The American Business Man
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Chapter 08 Part 1 Presidents and Problems
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Chapter 08 Part 2 Presidents and Problems
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Chapter 08 Part 3 Presidents and Problems
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Chapter 09 Part 1 Prohibition in Fact and Fancy
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Chapter 09 Part 2 Prohibition in Fact and Fancy
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Chapter 10 Part 1 Fads and Public Opinion
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Chapter 11 The Extraordinary American
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Chapter 12 The Republican in the Ruins
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Chapter 13 Is the Atlantic Narrowing?
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Chapter 14 Lincoln and Lost Causes
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Chapter 15 Part 1 Wells and the World State
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Chapter 15 Part 2 Wells and the World State
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Chapter 16 A New Martin Chuzzlewit
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Chapter 17 The Spirit of America
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Chapter 18 The Spirit of England
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Chapter 19 The Future of Democracy
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