America at Home (Classic Reprint)
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Low, Alfred Maurice) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
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Excerpt from America at Home ´You must not take me seriously,´ is his effort to disarm criticism in advance, ´because I do not take myself seriously.´ Now I, on the contrary, have a serious purpose. Although my comments may be a surface play over national traits, rather than an analysis of character and institutions, still, if I have not replaced the lay figure conception of ´Uncle Sam´ as an individual enthusiastically provincial, strenuously acquisitive, and infinitely crude, by a panoramic view of a great Nation - a Nation in flux, it is true, but crystallizing with amazing rapidity into an heroic mould, I have failed in my task. An attempt has been made frankly to present the truth about the American at home as it is borne in upon me after years of sojourn in that ´home,´ and not the caricature which is supposed to inspire the amused admiration of the public. On this point I await the judgment of my readers. I have not discussed the American temperament as demonstrated in present-day literature and art, for the reason that all literary efforts in the United States now seem to me to tend to inculcate the obvious without a hint of the subjective grasp of life which is the only touch to make a work vital and lasting, and because there is as yet no national school of American art. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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