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What I Saw in America Kindle Edition

by G. K. Chesterton (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.1 4.1 out of 5 stars 123 ratings
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An enduring portrait of America’s virtues and vices as seen by one of England’s greatest thinkers

After losing his brother in the Great War, a troubled and depressed G. K. Chesterton accepts an invitation to join a lecture tour that will take him across the United States for the first time. Part travelogue, part exploration of the American experiment, What I Saw in America begins with a man of letters trying to reconcile his faith with the atrocities and moral dilemmas of war and expands into an illuminating consideration of the limitations of capitalism, the concept of American exceptionalism, and the future of the democratic system.
 
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  4. Publisher
    Open Road Media
  5. Publication date
    September 22, 2015
  6. File size
    2268 KB
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G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) was a prolific English journalist and author best known for his mystery series featuring the priest-detective Father Brown and for the metaphysical thriller The Man Who Was Thursday. Baptized into the Church of England, Chesterton underwent a crisis of faith as a young man and became fascinated with the occult. He eventually converted to Roman Catholicism and published some of Christianity’s most influential apologetics, including Heretics and Orthodoxy.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B014QI1OCO
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Open Road Media (September 22, 2015)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 22, 2015
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 2268 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 200 pages
  • Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ B0CCCX47QM
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G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) was a prolific English journalist and author best known for his mystery series featuring the priest-detective Father Brown and for the metaphysical thriller The Man Who Was Thursday. Baptized into the Church of England, Chesterton underwent a crisis of faith as a young man and became fascinated with the occult. He eventually converted to Roman Catholicism and published some of Christianity's most influential apologetics, including Heretics and Orthodoxy.

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The picture in the introduction page is ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
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The picture in the introduction page is ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
The picture in the introduction page is ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE and NOT Chesterton's. Wanted to buy this edition so bad, but not until they fix that silly mistake. Anthem Press edition
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Daun Dunlap
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on August 16, 2014
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Great writing, great wit and wisdom along with dealing in realities
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James G. Bruen Jr.
4.0 out of 5 stars Insightful (and well-formatted)
Reviewed in the United States on February 9, 2016
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What I saw in America is a compilation of articles G.K. Chesterton wrote for an English publication during his trip to the United States in the early 1920s. It includes many insights, perhaps the most famous of which are that America is "a nation with the soul of a church" and that Broadway would be "a glorious garden of wonders … to any one was lucky enough to be unable to read." Because it is a compilation of articles, though, it can seem a bit disjointed, united more by the fact of the trip than a theme. Also, the American reader sometimes needs knowledge of English history when Chesterton assumes the English reader is familiar with, e.g., the Marconi Scandal and the Easter Rebellion in Ireland.

What I saw in America is necessary reading for fans of Chesterton, but those new to Chesterton should not start with this book; it is not among his best.

The free Kindle edition I downloaded in late 2015 is well formatted and does not have the problems mentioned in some of the now years-old reviews on Amazon.
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MMT
5.0 out of 5 stars Enlightening!
Reviewed in the United States on August 6, 2013
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No one says it better than G. K. Chesterton! So much to learn from him. He opens the mind to a greater appreciation of cultural diversity. You'll better come to love your fellow man the way God intended.
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William J. Gall
3.0 out of 5 stars Dated; train of thought hard to follow
Reviewed in the United States on July 1, 2021
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Clearly, Chesterton is an insightful man. I expected this to be a timpiece, revealing what life was like in the USA and England 100 years ago; how a thoughtful man looked at things then. That's what I got, but it was harder to grasp than I thought it would be. I have heard that Chesterton's style takes some getting used to, and as this is my first exposure to him, I would agree. A British person versed in his country's history would probably better understand his train of thought .
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Francis McNally
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on January 20, 2017
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Surprising insights into American culture by the great English writer G.K. Chesterton.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on December 24, 2014
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leads to more Chesterton, have to have more
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LPCoach
4.0 out of 5 stars Print Is Smaller Than I Would Like
Reviewed in the United States on November 27, 2022
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Shame on me, because I think that another reviewer pointed this out, but the print is definitely smaller than I would like. It is not unreadable, but is smaller than I would prefer
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Murph
1.0 out of 5 stars Chesterton yes, Kindle version no.
Reviewed in the United States on April 14, 2015
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This bad review has nothing to do with the book's content. G.K. Chesterton is on his game and has a lot of worthwhile things to say about England and America. However, the Kindle version was very difficult to read because the prose on the page looked like poetry (with long line followed by short line followed by long line).
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Tiago Damasceno
5.0 out of 5 stars What I Saw in America (English Edition)
Reviewed in Brazil on July 26, 2020
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