As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and tiresome. There is absolutely nothing to revile except that it's a bore.
Source: Letter, 17 Dec. 1908.
-- Henry Brooks Adams, (Feb 16 1838-1918), US historian, author; He won a Pulitzer for Education of Henry Adams, 1919.