Lauran Paine. Captain John Smith and the Jamestown Story. London:
R. Hale, 1973.
Henry Steele Commager. The American Mind. New Haven: Yale
University Press, 1950.
Charles Dickens. American Notes. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1985.
The book is a journal of Dickens's travels from Boston to St.
Louis, from January through June, 1842.
Alexis de Toqueville. Democracy in America, Vol. 1 (Henry Reeve text as revised by Francis Bowen). New York: Vintage Books, 1945.
Several other writers have attempted to characterize the USA, or at least some of its aspects:
Jean Baudrillard. Amérique. Paris: Grasset, 1986.
-. America. Chris Turner, London/New York: Verso, 1988.
Gerald Messadie. Requiem pour superman. La crise du mythe américain. Paris: R. Laffont, 1988.
Rodó, José Enrique. Ariel. Liberalismo y Jacobinismo. Buenos
Aires: Ediciones Depalma, 1967.