Bullish on America?

[Carl Remick]

>Dickens, in his
>fictional Martin Chuzzlewit and his journalistic American Notes, did his
>best to ridicule and discredit the notion of the United States as the land
>of opportunity.

IMO, American Notes remains one of the most insightful books ever written 
about the USA.  It's fascinating to watch Dickens' steadily deepening 
disillusionment with a nation he'd been predisposed to admire.

Carl

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