Reading Martin Chuzzlewit again (Signet classic edition 1965) 53 years since my first reading, I was struck by Dickens’ observations of the American character. Writing in 1842, he seemed to sum up how the collective psyche was sucking the nation down the vortex of exceptionalism and insularity. Dickens’ principal character inquires of his host (p569):Continue reading “What the Dickens is wrong with Americans?!”
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Awesomely Astute 