A Third World : [Further chapters of autobiography by the author of Two Worlds] [Images of America -- Personalities and politics -- Sympathies -- Farewell to reverie -- Journeyings -- Interlude for explanation -- Moments of unreality -- I represent my country -- Life and letters -- Home -- Culture and crisis -- Renewal -- Cornell -- Educating the children -- Entry and departure.]

Sussez : At the University Press ; Distributed by Chatto & Windus Ltd.], 1971., 1971. Fine. 215 pp. ; 25 cm. ; ISBN:0856210005 ; green cloth in colored dustjacket ; "This sequel..presents his discovery of America. David Daiches gave up a research fellowship at Baillol College, Oxford, in September 1937 to accept an invitation to teach at the University of Chicago. he spent in al some fourteen years in the United States, first in Chicago, then with British Information Services, New York, then as Second Secretary at the British Embassy in Washington, and a last five years as Professor of English at Cornell, before returning to Britain to teach at Cambridge. The book gives a vivid account of the America of Roosevelt's third term as seen from the MIddle West..of life in Washington when that city was the centre of the war-time alliance against Hitler, and of the American cultural scene in the late 1940's. All this is presented through the highly personal story of adventures and misadventures in many different regions of the United States..and it includes some strangely comic episodes, some of which first appeared in The New Yorker." Contents: Images of America -- Personalities and politics -- Sympathies -- Farewell to reverie -- Journeyings -- Interlude for explanation -- Moments of unreality -- I represent my country -- Life and letters -- Home -- Culture and crisis -- Renewal -- Cornell -- Educating the children -- Entry and departure. ; FINE/FINE