How Long to Read The Abounding American

How Long Does it Take to Read The Abounding American?

It takes the average reader 1 hour and 28 minutes to read The Abounding American by T. W. H. Crosland

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

A certain Western city has been described by a friendly visitor as "hell with the lid off." For the greater part of her existence as a nation that description might with justice have been applied to all America, and I am by no means sure that it is not still applicable. It would seem that under the inspiring �gis of the much-vaunted American constitution the whole of the vices of civilised man have become grossly and incredibly intensified. For unscrupulousness, insincerity, cynicism, and the pure worship of mammon the United States stands without rival among the nations to-day. I believe the man lied who said there is not an institution in the country--political, social, economic or even religious--that is not based on a species of ingrained rottenness and not infested with the worm of corruption and the scrawl of scandal. But there is no national aspiration that does not have at the back of it the root idea that the sole duty of an American man is to get rich and to get rich quick. There are few standards of American life that are not gold standards and few kinds of American effort that are not directed towards the rapid acquisition of other people's money. It can be proved out of the history books that, broadly speaking, your average American is a nondescript and nefarious hybrid composed of three parts promoter, three parts missionary, three parts slave-driver, and one part Indian. On this unsavoury soil the worst passions of the soaring human animal have grown and run hoggishly to seed. Out of such blood nothing that is honest or of good report could be expected to rise. And when we in England, as has been the tendency in the past few years, condescend to the adoption of American methods and American notions, and applaud rather than rebuke American smartness and American impudence, there can be no question whatever that we are on the toboggan. The gradual Americanisation of this grand old country is not only flattering to American vanity, but gratifying to American greed. As I shall presently show, America has no more love for England than would easily cover a threepenny-bit, and her insatiable cry is for markets, markets, markets--a howl in which she is dulcetly supported by her dear friend Germany. The causes for alarm in so far as they affect the larger concrete issues are as yet comparatively slight. But it behoves every Englishman to meditate on the possibility that Macaulay's New Zealander may in the long run turn out to be an American. CONTENTS. The Proposition Millionaires Humourists The American Woman Literature The President Advertisement The Pea-nut Mind The Drama Sport Hogs Verdict

How long is The Abounding American?

The Abounding American by T. W. H. Crosland is 86 pages long, and a total of 22,016 words.

This makes it 29% the length of the average book. It also has 27% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Abounding American Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 2 hours to read The Abounding American aloud.

What Reading Level is The Abounding American?

The Abounding American is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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