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The Twentieth Century American Being A Comparative Study Of The

The Avoidance of Entangling Alliances--What the Injunction Meant--What it Cannot Mean To-day--The Interests of the United States, no less than those of England, Demand an Alliance--But Larger Interests than those of the Two Peoples are Involved--American Responsiveness to Idea...

Chapters

1. Chapter 1

The Avoidance of Entangling Alliances--What the Injunction Meant--What it Cannot Mean To-day--The Interests of the United States, no less than those of England, Demand an Allian...

2. Chapter 2

The Anglo-Saxon Family Likeness--How Frenchmen and Germans View it--Englishmen, Americans, and "Foreigners"--An Echo of the War of 1812--An Anglo-American Conflict Unthinkable--...

3. Chapter 3

Europe's Undervaluation of America's Fighting Power--The Americans as Sailors--The Nation's Greatest Asset--Self-reliance of the People--The Making of a Doctor--And of a Surveyo...

4. Chapter 4

America's Bigness--A New Atlantis--The Effect of Expansion on a People--A Family Estranged--Parsnips--An American Woman in England--An Englishman in America--International Caric...

5. Chapter 5

The Isolation of the United States--American Ignorance of the World--Sensitiveness to Criticism--Exaggeration of their Own Virtues--The Myth of American Chivalrousness--Whence i...

6. Chapter 6

American Insularity--A Conkling Story--English Humour and American Critics--American Literature and English Critics--The American Novel in England--And American Art--Wanted, an...

7. Chapter 7

The Rhodes Scholarships--"Pullulating Colleges"--Are American Colleges Superior to Oxford or Cambridge?--Other Educational Forces--The Postal Laws--Ten-cent Magazines and Cheap...

8. Chapter 8

The Advantage of Youth--Japanese Eclecticism and American--The Craving for the Best--_Cyrano de Bergerac_--Verestschagin-- Culture by Paroxysms--Mr. Gladstone and the Japanese--...

9. Chapter 9

The "English-American" Vote--The Best People in Politics--What Politics Means in America--Where Corruption Creeps in--The Danger in England--A Presidential Nomination for Sale--...

10. Chapter 10

The System of Parties--Interdependence of National and Local Organisations--The Federal Government and Sovereign States-- The Boss of Warwickshire--The Unit System--Prime Minist...

11. Chapter 11

Sovereign States and the Federal Government--California and the Senate--The Constitutional Powers of Congress and the President--Government by Interpretation--President Roosevel...

12. Chapter 12

Are Americans more Honest than Englishmen?--An American Peerage--Senators and other Aristocrats--Trade and the British Upper Classes--Two Views of a Business Career--America's W...

13. Chapter 13

The Superiority of the Anglo-Saxon--America's Resemblance to Japan--A German View--Can Americans Lie?--Honesty as the Best Policy--Religious Sentiment--Moral and Immoral Railway...

14. Chapter 14

The Commercial Power of the United States--British Workmanship-- Tin-tacks and Conservatism--A Prophetic Frenchman--Imperialism in Trade--The Anglo-Saxon Spirit--About Chaperons...

15. Chapter 15

American Sport Twenty-five Years Ago--The Power of Golf--A Look Ahead--Britain, Mother of Sports--Buffalo in New York-- And Pheasants on Clapham Common--Shooting Foxes and the "...

16. Chapter 16

A New Way of Making Friends--The Desirability of an Alliance-- For the Sake of Both Peoples--And of all the World--The Family Resemblance--Mutual Misunderstandings--American Con...

17. Chapter 17

The Avoidance of Entangling Alliances--What the Injunction Meant--What it Cannot Mean To-day--The Interests of the United States, no less than those of England, Demand an Allian...

18. Chapter 18

The Anglo-Saxon Family Likeness--How Frenchmen and Germans View it--Englishmen, Americans, and "Foreigners"--An Echo of the War of 1812--An Anglo-American Conflict Unthinkable--...

19. Chapter 19

Europe's Undervaluation of America's Fighting Power--The Americans as Sailors--The Nation's Greatest Asset--Self-reliance of the People--The Making of a Doctor--And of a Surveyo...

20. Chapter 20

America's Bigness--A New Atlantis--The Effect of Expansion on a People--A Family Estranged--Parsnips--An American Woman in England--An Englishman in America--International Caric...

21. Chapter 21

The Isolation of the United States--American Ignorance of the World--Sensitiveness to Criticism--Exaggeration of their Own Virtues--The Myth of American Chivalrousness--Whence i...

22. Chapter 22

American Insularity--A Conkling Story--English Humour and American Critics--American Literature and English Critics--The American Novel in England--And American Art--Wanted, an...

23. Chapter 23

The Rhodes Scholarships--"Pullulating Colleges"--Are American Universities Superior to Oxford or Cambridge?--Other Educational Forces--The Postal Laws--Ten-cent Magazines and Ch...

24. Chapter 24

The Advantage of Youth--Japanese Eclecticism and American--The Craving for the Best--_Cyrano de Bergerac_--Verestschagin-- Music and the Drama--Culture by Paroxysms--Mr. Gladsto...

25. Chapter 25

The "English-American" Vote--The Best People in Politics--What Politics Means in America--Where Corruption Creeps in--The Danger in England--A Presidential Nomination for Sale--...

26. Chapter 26

The System of Parties--Interdependence of National and Local Organisations--The Federal Government and Sovereign States--The Boss of Warwickshire--The Unit System--Prime Ministe...

27. Chapter 27

Sovereign States and the Federal Government--California and the Senate--The Constitutional Powers of Congress and the President--Government by Interpretation--President Roosevel...

28. Chapter 28

Are Americans more Honest than Englishmen?--An American Peerage--Senators and other Aristocrats--Trade and the British Upper Classes--Two Views of a Business Career--America's W...

29. Chapter 29

The Superiority of the Anglo-Saxon--America's Resemblance to Japan--A German View--Can Americans Lie?--Honesty as the Best Policy--Religious Sentiment--Moral and Immoral Railway...

30. Chapter 30

The Commercial Power of the United States--British Workmanship-- Tin-tacks and Conservatism--A Prophetic Frenchman--Imperialism in Trade--The Anglo-Saxon Spirit--About Chaperons...

31. Chapter 31

American Sport Twenty-five Years Ago--The Power of Golf--A Look Ahead--Britain, Mother of Sports--Buffalo in New York--And Pheasants on Clapham Common--Shooting Foxes and the "S...

32. Chapter 32

A New Way of Making Friends--The Desirability of an Alliance-- For the Sake of Both Peoples--And of All the World--The Family Resemblance--Mutual Misunderstandings--American Con...