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America in perspective: the United States through foreign eyes
Commager, Henry Steele, 1902-1998.
Year: c1947.
Publisher:  New American Library. 
© Henry Steele Commager
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Frontmatter
Introduction
1. What is an American?
2. Why the Americans Are a Happy People
3. The Material Well-Being of the Americans
4. "Ten Years in America Are Like a Century Elsewhere"
5. The Pervasive Influence of Democracy
6. Eccentricity and Originality in the American Character
7. The American Idiom and American Prudery
8. Religion and Morality Preside Over Their Councils
9. It Would Be Well If They Loved the Real Less and the Ideal More
10. Every American Is an Apostle of the Democratic Creed
11. Social Life and Customs of the Frontier
12. American Notions of Aristocracy
13. The British and American Characters Compared
14. Over Diversity There Broods a Higher Unity
15. The Practical Genius of the American
16. Your Constitution Is All Sail and No Anchor
17.God Made America for the Poor
18. An English Workingman Takes a Dim View of American Women
19. America Is Not Interesting
20. The Faults and Strength of American Democracy
21. High Society at Newport
22. The American Is an Electric Anglo-Saxon
23. A Philosopher Explains the American Passion for Money
24. Is America a Young or a Dying Nation?
25. America Combines the Best Traits of Old-World Nations
26. The American at Home and in His Club
27. The Sentimentality, Kindness and Innocence of the Americans
28. Americans Are Boys
29. The Mechanization and Standardization of American Life
30. Love in America
31. A Chinese View of the American Character
32. Capitalism Nurtures America in Spiritual Lassitude
33. The Homeliness and Friendliness of the Americans
34. A Cambridge Professor Celebrates the American Public School
35. The American Believes in Tomorrow
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Title: America in perspective : the United States through foreign eyes / edited, with an introduction and notes, by Henry Steele Commager.
Author: Commager, Henry Steele, 1902-1998
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Source Version: America in perspective : the United States through foreign eyes / edited, with an introduction and notes, by Henry Steele Commager
Commager, Henry Steele, 1902-1998
New York: New American Library, c1947.
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.06929
Subject Headings: • National characteristics, American
• United States -- Civilization
Notes: • "A Mentor book."
• Electronic access restricted; authentication may be required
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