{"product_id":"2940016056968","title":"Introducing The American Spirit","description":"CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  I.     THE HERR DIRECTOR MEETS THE\u003cbr\u003e           AMERICAN SPIRIT                          15\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  II.    OUR NATIONAL CREED                         35\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  III.   THE SPIRIT OUT-OF-DOORS                    58\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  IV.    THE SPIRIT AT LAKE MOHONK                  74\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  V.     LOBSTER AND MINCE PIE                      92\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  VI.    THE HERR DIRECTOR AND THE\u003cbr\u003e           \"MISSOURY\" SPIRIT                       112\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  VII.   THE HERR DIRECTOR AND THE COLLEGE\u003cbr\u003e           SPIRIT                                  129\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  VIII.  THE RUSSIAN SOUL AND THE AMERICAN\u003cbr\u003e           SPIRIT                                  147\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  IX.    CHICAGO                                   166\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  X.     WHERE THE SPIRIT IS YOUNG                 184\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  XI.    THE AMERICAN SPIRIT AMONG THE\u003cbr\u003e           MORMONS                                 199\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  XII.   THE CALIFORNIA CONFESSION OF\u003cbr\u003e           FAITH                                   216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  XIII.  THE GRINNELL SPIRIT                       237\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  XIV.   THE COMMENCEMENT AND THE END              249\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  XV.    THE CHALLENGE OF THE AMERICAN\u003cbr\u003e           SPIRIT                                  262\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e_The Herr Director Meets the American Spirit_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Herr Director and I were sitting over our coffee in the _Café\u003cbr\u003eBauer_, _Unter den Linden_. In the midst of my account of some of the\u003cbr\u003emen of America and the idealistic movements in which they are\u003cbr\u003einterested, he rudely interrupted with: \"You may tell that to some one\u003cbr\u003ewho has never been in the United States; but not to me who have\u003cbr\u003etravelled through the length and breadth of it three times.\" He said it\u003cbr\u003ein an ungenerous, impatient way, although his last visit was thirty\u003cbr\u003eyears ago and his journeys across this continent necessarily hurried. I\u003cbr\u003edared not say much more, for I am apt to lose my temper when any one\u003cbr\u003eanywhere, criticizes my adopted country or questions my glowing accounts\u003cbr\u003eof it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut I did say: \"When you come over the next time, let me be your\u003cbr\u003eguide.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Why should I want to go over again?\" he replied. \"It's a noisy, dirty,\u003cbr\u003ehopelessly materialistic country. You have sky-scrapers, but no beauty;\u003cbr\u003emoney, but no ideals; garishness, but no comfort. You have despatch, but\u003cbr\u003eno courtesy; you are ingenious, but not thorough; you have fine clothes,\u003cbr\u003ebut no style; churches, but no religion; universities, but no learning.\u003cbr\u003eNo, I have been there three times. That's enough. I know all about it.\u003cbr\u003e_Fertig!\"_ And with that he dismissed me without giving me a chance to\u003cbr\u003erelieve my feelings, of which there were many; although he took\u003cbr\u003eadvantage of a minute that was left and told me that I was an\u003cbr\u003e_Unausstehlicher Americaner_ whose judgment had been warped by my great\u003cbr\u003elove for my adopted country.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEvidently the Herr Director reversed his decision not to come to this\u003cbr\u003ecountry; for the following spring I received a cablegram to meet him on\u003cbr\u003ethe arrival of his ship at the Hamburg-American dock, which of course I\u003cbr\u003epromptly did. The Herr Director and the Frau Directorin stepped onto the\u003cbr\u003esoil of the United States with a predisposition to be martyrs, to\u003cbr\u003eendure the sufferings entailed by travel with as little grace as\u003cbr\u003epossible, and to suppress to the utmost all pleasurable emotion.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn the other hand, I was determined to show off my United States from\u003cbr\u003eits best side, to woo and win the Herr Director's and the Frau\u003cbr\u003eDirectorin's approval. In my laudable endeavor I seemed to be supported\u003cbr\u003eby that divine providence which watches over the whole world in general,\u003cbr\u003ebut over the United States in particular. The weather was perfect, the\u003cbr\u003esky festooned in fleecy clouds, the air charged by a divine energy; and\u003cbr\u003ewhen the sun shines upon the harbor of New York--well, even the most\u003cbr\u003etaciturn European cannot resist it.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47157041201392,"sku":"2940016056968","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940016056968","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}