People of Destiny: Americans as I saw them at Home and Abroad

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Philip Gibbs. People of Destiny: Americans as I saw them at Home and Abroad

People of Destiny: Americans as I saw them at Home and Abroad

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PEOPLE OF DESTINY

I

THE ADVENTURE OF LIFE IN NEW YORK

II

SOME PEOPLE I MET IN AMERICA

III

THINGS I LIKE IN THE UNITED STATES

IV

AMERICA'S NEW PLACE IN THE WORLD

V

WHAT ENGLAND THINKS OF AMERICA

VI

AMERICANS IN EUROPE

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Philip Gibbs

Published by Good Press, 2021

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"Have you seen that play by Maeterlinck?" asked an elderly man so like President Wilson's portraits that he seemed to be the twin brother of that much-discussed man.

These people were human all through, not at all dehumanized, after all, because they lived maybe on the thirty-first story of a New York skyscraper. I dare say also that their work is not so strenuous as it looks from the outside, and that they earn more dollars a week than business men and women of their own class in England, so that they have more margin for the pleasures of life, for the purchase of a "cute little hat," even for a play by Maeterlinck.

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