divdiv divb style=""span style="font-size: 12pt;"o:p/o:p/span/bspan lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;"o:p/o:p/span meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type" meta content="Word.Document" name="ProgId" meta content="Microsoft Word 11" name="Generator" meta content="Microsoft Word 11" name="Originator" link rel="File-List" /!--[if gte mso 9]xml w:WordDocument w:ViewNormal/w:View w:Zoom0/w:Zoom w:PunctuationKerning / w:ValidateAgainstSchemas / w:SaveIfXMLInvalidfalse/w:SaveIfXMLInvalid w:IgnoreMixedContentfalse/w:IgnoreMixedContent w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderTextfalse/w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText w:Compatibility w:BreakWrappedTables / w:SnapToGridInCell / w:WrapTextWithPunct / w:UseAsianBreakRules / w:DontGrowAutofit / /w:Compatibility w:BrowserLevelMicrosoftInternetExplorer4/w:BrowserLevel /w:WordDocument /xml![endif]--!--[if gte mso 9]xml w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" LatentStyleCount="156" /w:LatentStyles /xml![endif]--style type="text/css" !-- /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 {size:612.0pt 792.0pt; margin:72.0pt 90.0pt 72.0pt 90.0pt; mso-header-margin:35.4pt; mso-footer-margin:35.4pt; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} - /style!--[if gte mso 10] style /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} /style ![endif]-- FCK:meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type" /FCK:meta FCK:meta content="Word.Document" name="ProgId" /FCK:meta FCK:meta content="Microsoft Word 11" name="Generator" /FCK:meta FCK:meta content="Microsoft Word 11" name="Originator" /FCK:meta link rel="File-List" /!--[if gte mso 9]xml w:WordDocument w:ViewNormal/w:View w:Zoom0/w:Zoom w:PunctuationKerning / w:ValidateAgainstSchemas / w:SaveIfXMLInvalidfalse/w:SaveIfXMLInvalid w:IgnoreMixedContentfalse/w:IgnoreMixedContent w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderTextfalse/w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText w:Compatibility w:BreakWrappedTables / w:SnapToGridInCell / w:WrapTextWithPunct / w:UseAsianBreakRules / w:DontGrowAutofit / /w:Compatibility w:BrowserLevelMicrosoftInternetExplorer4/w:BrowserLevel /w:WordDocument /xml![endif]--!--[if gte mso 9]xml w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" LatentStyleCount="156" /w:LatentStyles /xml![endif]--style type="text/css" !--{12197679984625}--/style span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"Journalist, novelist, poet, artist and art critic, essayist, theologian, propagandist, philosopher, and creator of the wily old Father Brown – G. K Chesterton is one of the most beguiling authors of the early twentietth ccenttttury. When asked to perform a lecture tour in 1921, Chesterton was in a slump of depression. He had recently lost his brother to the First World War and his wavering faith in the face of the horrors of the conflict only intensified his malaise. iWhat I Saw in America/i tells us as much about the author and his particular views as it does about his destination. Indeed, Chesterton’s personalised observations – his aversion to imperialism, capitalism, Anglo-Americanism and his commitment to democracy and fraternity – are distinguished by the piercing wit for which he is famed. br / br / Many of Chesterton’s reflections are timeless and startlingly prescient. He was highly critical of both the naïve immigration policies and the grinding dehumanisation broughtt about by the growth of the economy. Nonetheless, he was enthralled by the glorious ideals of the nation – founded on principles of equality, democracy and freedom – even if the essence of these ideals had been lost somewhere along the way. iWhat I Saw in America/i ranks among the finest of CChesterton’s works, containing all of the author’s virtues and vices: his wry humour, sympathy and intelligence playing devilishly against an irrepressible mischievousness. o:p/o:p/span/meta /meta /meta /meta /div p class="MsoNormal"o:p /o:p/p span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;"o:ppp/o:p/span p /p /div/div&am