By way of a preface -- First impressions -- Deliverance from history -- The old tag of materialism -- A few vulnerable points -- The race question -- Another thorn in the flesh -- American kindness and sense of fellowship -- "We are bruised souls" -- The symbolic smile -- The American pilgrimage -- American modesty -- Too much modesty: the need for an explicit philosophy -- The grand slander -- Some American illusions -- Marriage and happiness -- American openmindedness and intellectual courtesy -- Work and leisure -- American lessons in political and social philosophy -- America is promise.
