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Observing America
Robert Frankel
其他書名
The Commentary of British Visitors to the United States, 1890–1950
出版Univ of Wisconsin Press, 2007-01-05
主題History / GeneralHistory / United States / 20th CenturyLiterary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, WelshTravel / United States / General
ISBN029921883X9780299218836
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=72D7E-47AAcC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Beginning with Alexis de Tocqueville and Frances Trollope, visitors to America have written some of the most penetrating and, occasionally, scathing commentaries on U.S. politics and culture. Observing America focuses on four of the most insightful British commentators on America between 1890 and 1950. The colorful journalist W. T. Stead championed Anglo-American unity while plunging into reform efforts in Chicago. The versatile writer H. G. Wells fiercely criticized capitalist America but found reason for hope in the administrations of Theodore Roosevelt and Franklin Roosevelt. G. K. Chesterton, one of England’s great men of letters, urged Americans to preserve the vestiges of Jeffersonian democracy that he still discerned in the small towns of the heartland. And the influential political theorist and activist Harold Laski assailed the business ethos that he believed dominated the nation, especially after Franklin Roosevelt’s death.

Robert Frankel examines the New World experiences of these commentators and the books they wrote about America. He also probes similar writings by other prominent observers from the British Isles, including Beatrice Webb, Rudyard Kipling, and George Bernard Shaw. The result is a book that offers keen insights into America’s national identity in a time of vast political and cultural change.