What I Saw in America: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

What I Saw in America, credited to G. K. Chesterton, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of What I Saw in America by G. K. Chesterton, read by Ray Clare. “Let me begin my American impressions with two impressions I had before I went to America. One was an incident and the other an idea; and when taken together they illustrate the attitude I mean. The first principle is that nobody should be ashamed of thinking a thing funny because it is foreign; the second is that he should be ashamed of thinking it wrong because it is funny.” (Quotation from Gilbert Keith Chesterton)

Recording facts

• Recording title: What I Saw in America
• Author credits: G. K. Chesterton
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 32
• Listed recording duration: 9:54:58

Catalogue topics

• audio books
• essays
• America

Opening tracks: first 24 of 32

1. Section 01 - Chapter 01 - Part 1 - What is America — 19:00
2. Section 02 - Chapter 01 - Part 2 - What is America — 16:45
3. Section 03 - Chapter 02 - Part 1 - A Meditation in a New York Hotel — 14:50
4. Section 04 - Chapter 02 - Part 2 - A Meditation in a New York Hotel — 14:02
5. Section 05 - Chapter 03 - Part 1 - A Meditation in Broadway — 15:55
6. Section 06 - Chapter 03 - Part 2 - Medidation in Broadway — 11:38
7. Section 07 - Chapter 04 - Part 1- Irish and Other Interviewers — 15:53
8. Section 08 - Chapter 04 - Part 2 - Irish and Other Interviewers — 15:56
9. Section 09 - Chapter 05 - Part 1 - Some American Cities — 17:25
10. Section 10 - Chapter 05 - Part 2 - Some American Cities — 15:04
11. Section 11 - Chapter 06 - Part 1 - In the American Country — 17:08
12. Section 12 - Chapter 06 - Part 2 - In the American Country — 16:09
13. Section 13 - Chapter 07 - Part 1 - The American Business Man — 16:38
14. Section 14 - Chapter 07 - Part 2 - The American Business Man — 15:45
15. Section 15 - Chapter 07 - Part 3 - The American Business Man — 13:24
16. Section 16 - Chapter 08 - Part 1 - Presidents and Problems — 12:26
17. Section 17 - Chapter 08 - Part 2 - Presidents and Problems — 14:59
18. Section 18 - Chapter 08 - Part 3 - Presidents and Problems — 19:49
19. Section 19 - Chapter 09 - Part 1 - Prohibition in Fact and Fancy — 16:06
20. Section 20 - Chapter 09 - Part 2 - Prohibition in Fact and Fancy — 18:50
21. Section 21 - Chapter 10 - Part 1 - Fads and Public Opinions — 17:54
22. Section 20 - Chapter 10 - Part 2 - Fads and Public Opinion — 18:25
23. Section 23 - Chapter 11 - The Extraordinary American — 22:45
24. Section 24 - Chapter 12 - The Republican in the Ruins — 25:30

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