The Irish-born literary editor of The New Republic turns his pen on the unseen censor inside every reader, and then on the America around him. Here are essays on Strachey’s Eminent Victorians, Billy Sunday as a salesman, whisky and Prohibition, the corner of Fifth Avenue and Forty-Second Street, how an alien feels, scientific management, and the cities of New York and Chicago.
Sharp, independent criticism from 1921 that still reads as fresh commentary on American life. Download the free EPUB.