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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Part I From a Twenty-Seventh-Story Window -- 1 The Normandie -- 2 The First Evening in New York -- 3 What Can Be Seen From a Hotel Window -- 4 Appetite Departs While Eating -- 5 We Seek an Angel Without Wings -- 6 Papa and Mamma -- 7 The Electric Chair -- 8 A New York Arena -- 9 We Purchase an Automobile and Depart -- Part II Through the Eastern States -- 10 On the Automobile Highway -- 11 The Small Town -- 12 A Big Little Town -- 13 Mr. Ripley's Electric House -- 14 America Cannot Be Caught Napping -- 15 Dearborn -- 16 Henry Ford -- 17 That Horrible Town, Chicago -- 18 The Best Musicians in the World -- Part III Toward the Pacific Ocean -- 19 In Mark Twain's Country -- 20 A Marine -- 21 Rogers and His Wife -- 22 Santa Fé -- 23 Meeting the Indians -- 24 A Day of Mishaps -- 25 The Desert -- 26 Grand Canyon -- 27 The Man in the Red Shirt -- 28 A Young Baptist -- 29 On the Crest of the Dam -- Part IV The Golden State -- 30 Mrs. Adams Sets a Record -- 31 San Francisco -- 32 American Football -- 33 Russian Hill -- 34 Captain X -- 35 Four Standard Types -- 36 The God of Potboilers -- 37 Hollywood Serfs -- 38 Pray, Weigh Yourself, and Pay -- 39 God's Country -- Part V Back to the Atlantic -- 40 On the Old Spanish Trail -- 41 A Day in Mexico -- 42 New Year's Eve in San Antonio -- 43 We Enter the Southern States -- 44 Negroes -- 45 American Democracy -- 46 They and We -- 47 Farewell, America!