It is October 19, 1842.

Charles Dickens’s travel memoir of his six-month trip across North America has been published.

It is a work filled with details of places and people, customs and institutions.

And Dickens, ever the keen observer, finds much about America to admire.

But American society has flaws, Dickens says.

Among them is the love of the ‘good deal’ and the idolization of successful businessmen.

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