Your United States: Impressions of a first visit

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Arnold Bennett. Your United States: Impressions of a first visit

Your United States: Impressions of a first visit

Table of Contents

YOUR UNITED STATES

I

THE FIRST NIGHT

II

STREETS

III

THE CAPITOL AND OTHER SITES

IV

SOME ORGANIZATIONS

V

TRANSIT AND HOTELS

VI

SPORT AND THE THEATER

VII

EDUCATION AND ART

VIII

CITIZENS

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Arnold Bennett

Published by Good Press, 2019

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Let me not be misunderstood. I have been speaking of only one brand of American interviewer. I encountered a couple of really admirable women interviewers, not too young, and a confraternity of men who did not disdain an elementary knowledge of their business. One of these arrived with a written list of questions, took a shorthand note of all I said, and then brought me a proof to correct. In interviewing this amounts almost to genius. … I have indicated what to me seems a defect—trifling, possibly, but still a defect—in the brilliant organization of the great national sport of interviewing. Were this defect removed, as it could be, the institution might be as perfect as the American oyster. Than which nothing is more perfect.

"You aren't drinking your coffee," said some one, inspecting my cup at the saloon table.

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