The Future In America A Search After Realities The Original Unabridged And Illustrated Edition

Author : H. G. Wells
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781985026728
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book The Future in America written by H. G. Wells and published by . This book was released on 2018-02-05 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Even those readers of Mr. Wells who are sworn enemies of his conclusions will readily make the handsome admission that 'The Future in America' is one of the most interesting books that has been written about us by a foreigner these many years; that it proceeds from an abounding goodwill; and that it is quite free from malice, presumption, or condescension. The author's transparent good nature makes it impossible to be angry at even his sharpest criticisms; and the vitality and freshness of his style have produced a work that is readable from cover to cover. It is a wholesome book, too, for our perusal, for it does not spare the ugly flaws in our civilization and brings us face to face with the giant band of problems that confront us....It clearly defines the problems that confront us, and in its broad, humane, and generous temper, there is an exhilaration that leaves a reader eager to have a hand in shaping the future of America after his heart's desire." -Putnam's Monthly "Americans who care deeply for their country and can look beyond the issues of the moment toward vistas that stretch on forever are likely to find occasion for much fruitful thought and healthy introspection in the latest work of that novelist of genius and modern prophet, H. G. Wells....At the outset, Mr. Wells declares that in this, as in all his work, he has been dominated by a sense of the prophetic. He is concerned not so much with the America that is as with the America that is to be." -Current Literature "The book is illuminating in the fullest sense, a criticism not only of America, but of all civilized society, and it is written in a style which is always attractive and rises now and then to uncommon beauty and power, for Mr. Wells is as much poet as sociologist. He sees his data not grayly set out on a laboratory table, but touched with the eternal mystery of human hopes and fears." -The London Spectator "Mr. Wells is worth listening to: unlike the customary scurrying Englishman who makes a book about the 'States,' he does not confine his observations to our dirty streets, our skyscrapers, Pullmans and hotels, nor even to American women. He is after more serious things - the industrial situation, the American idea as shown at Ellis Island, the spirit of our civilization." -The Saturday Evening Post "Stimulating and suggestive. It is not a record of travel or facts of philosophy, but it is a sane discussion of various striking features of American life and character." -The World's Work "The book is full of quotable sentences.... He is extremely acute and often witty in describing the different social atmospheres of our cities." -The Outlook CONTENTS I. The Prophetic Habit of Mind II. Material Progress III. New York IV. Growth Invincible V. The Economic Process VI. Some Aspects of American Wealth VII. Certain Workers VIII. Corruption IX. The Immigrant X. State-Blindness XI. Two Studies in Disappointment XII. The Tragedy of Color XIII. The Mind of a Modern State XIV. Culture XV. At Washington The Envoy