Invited to lecture at the Sorbonne, the Princeton poet and clergyman set out to explain his country to a Paris audience. He traces the soul of the American people through self-reliance and the republic, fair play and democracy, the drive of will-power toward work and wealth, and the habits of common order and cooperation, admitting along the way the hardening effects of industrial ambition.
A thoughtful portrait of American character before the First World War, written to strengthen French-American friendship. Download the free EPUB.