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Americana: Dispatches from the New Frontier (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781400033553)
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Hampton Sides
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xHarley-Davidson bikers - Grand Canyon river rats - Mormon archaeologists - Spelling bee prodigies - For more than fifteen years, the bestselling, award-winning author of Blood and Thunder and Ghost Soldiers has traveled widely across the continent exploring the America that lurks just behind the scrim of our mainstream culture.
This sparkling mosaic of our country, in all its wild and poignant charm, "may be the best road trip you'll ever take--full of strange vision, hilarious detours, and sudden beauty in unlikely places" (The New Yorker).
Reporting for Outside, The New Yorker, and NPR, among other national media, the award-winning journalist has established a reputation not only as a wry observer of the contemporary American scene but also as one of our more inventive and versatile practitioners of narrative non-fiction. In these two dozen pieces, collected here for the first time, Sides gives us a fresh, alluring, and at times startling America brimming with fascinating subcultures and bizarre characters who could live nowhere else. Following Sides, we crash the redwood retreat of an apparent cabal of fabulously powerful military-industrialists, drop in on the Indy 500 of bass fishing, and join a giant techno-rave at the lip of the Grand Canyon. We meet a diverse gallery of American visionaries-- from the impossibly perky founder of Tupperware to Indian radical Russell Means to skateboarding legend Tony Hawk. We retrace the route of the historic Bataan Death March with veterans from Sides' acclaimed WWII epic, Ghost Soldiers. Sides also examines the nation that has emerged from the ashes of September 11, recounting the harrowing journeys of three World Trade Center survivors and deciding at the last possible minute not to "embed" on the Iraqi front-lines with the U.S. Marines.
Author: Hampton Sides
ISBN-10: 1400033551
ISBN-13: 9781400033553
Publisher: Anchor Books
Language: English
Published: 04/13/2004
Pages: 464
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 1.00d
Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 04/01/2004 pg. 113
Men's Journal 05/01/2004 pg. 46
Outside 05/01/2004 pg. 40
Booklist 04/15/2004 pg. 1421
This sparkling mosaic of our country, in all its wild and poignant charm, "may be the best road trip you'll ever take--full of strange vision, hilarious detours, and sudden beauty in unlikely places" (The New Yorker).
Reporting for Outside, The New Yorker, and NPR, among other national media, the award-winning journalist has established a reputation not only as a wry observer of the contemporary American scene but also as one of our more inventive and versatile practitioners of narrative non-fiction. In these two dozen pieces, collected here for the first time, Sides gives us a fresh, alluring, and at times startling America brimming with fascinating subcultures and bizarre characters who could live nowhere else. Following Sides, we crash the redwood retreat of an apparent cabal of fabulously powerful military-industrialists, drop in on the Indy 500 of bass fishing, and join a giant techno-rave at the lip of the Grand Canyon. We meet a diverse gallery of American visionaries-- from the impossibly perky founder of Tupperware to Indian radical Russell Means to skateboarding legend Tony Hawk. We retrace the route of the historic Bataan Death March with veterans from Sides' acclaimed WWII epic, Ghost Soldiers. Sides also examines the nation that has emerged from the ashes of September 11, recounting the harrowing journeys of three World Trade Center survivors and deciding at the last possible minute not to "embed" on the Iraqi front-lines with the U.S. Marines.
Author: Hampton Sides
ISBN-10: 1400033551
ISBN-13: 9781400033553
Publisher: Anchor Books
Language: English
Published: 04/13/2004
Pages: 464
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 1.00d
Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 04/01/2004 pg. 113
Men's Journal 05/01/2004 pg. 46
Outside 05/01/2004 pg. 40
Booklist 04/15/2004 pg. 1421
By Hampton Sides
xHAMPTON SIDES is the author of The New York Times bestselling histories On Desperate Ground, In the Kingdom of Ice, Hellhound on his Trail, Blood and Thunder, and Ghost Soldiers, which won the PEN USA Award for Nonfiction. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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