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Americana: Dispatches from the New Frontier - Paperback By Sides, Hampton - GOOD
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- ISBN
- 1400033551
- Book Title
- Americana : Dispatches from the New Frontier
- Item Length
- 7.9in
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 2004
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1in
- Genre
- Travel, Social Science
- Topic
- Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Essays & Travelogues, United States / General
- Item Width
- 5.2in
- Item Weight
- 13.2 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 464 Pages
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Harley-Davidson bikers . . . Grand Canyon river rats. . . Mormon archaeologists . . . Spelling bee prodigies . . . For more than fifteen years, best-selling author and historian Hampton Sides has traveled widely across the continent exploring the America that lurks just behind the scrim of our mainstream culture. 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. Americana gives us a sparkling mosaic of our country, in all its wild and poignant charm.
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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
1400033551
ISBN-13
9781400033553
eBay Product ID (ePID)
5960914
Product Key Features
Book Title
Americana : Dispatches from the New Frontier
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Essays & Travelogues, United States / General
Publication Year
2004
Genre
Travel, Social Science
Number of Pages
464 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
7.9in
Item Height
1in
Item Width
5.2in
Item Weight
13.2 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
E169.04s564 2004
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"This may be the best road trip you'll ever take-full of strange vision, hilarious detours, and sudden beauty in unlikely places." Burkhard Bilger, staff writer atThe New Yorker "'The ancient boyhood impulse to Get In,' as Hampton Sides puts it, fuels this rollicking book. An entertaining investigative trek through parts both familiar and strange." Anthony Swofford, author ofJarhead "Hampton Sides's America is a flabbergasting place. Funny but never at the expense of his subjects, wise but not wiseass, Sides seeks out decidedly non-average Americans who dig themselves deep into things." Mary Roach, author ofStiff "This is a dream adventure you'll likely never get; fortunately, Sides has been there. Wry, exuberant, and always compassionate,Americanais pure pleasure." Doug Stanton, author ofIn Harm's Way "Inside this riveting collection we find a country of hotly competing tribes encamped on the headlands of a still undefinable frontier. These incisive and often humorous stores comprise the vanguard of a new literature about America and its vast complexities." Michael Paterniti, author ofDriving Mr. Albert From the Trade Paperback edition., "This may be the best road trip you'll ever takefull of strange vision, hilarious detours, and sudden beauty in unlikely places." Burkhard Bilger, staff writer at The New Yorker "'The ancient boyhood impulse to Get In,' as Hampton Sides puts it, fuels this rollicking book. An entertaining investigative trek through parts both familiar and strange." Anthony Swofford, author of Jarhead "Hampton Sides's America is a flabbergasting place. Funny but never at the expense of his subjects, wise but not wiseass, Sides seeks out decidedly non-average Americans who dig themselves deep into things." Mary Roach, author of Stiff "This is a dream adventure you'll likely never get; fortunately, Sides has been there. Wry, exuberant, and always compassionate, Americana is pure pleasure." Doug Stanton, author of In Harm's Way "Inside this riveting collection we find a country of hotly competing tribes encamped on the headlands of a still undefinable frontier. These incisive and often humorous stores comprise the vanguard of a new literature about America and its vast complexities." Michael Paterniti, author of Driving Mr. Albert From the Trade Paperback edition.
Copyright Date
2004
Lccn
2003-066439
Dewey Decimal
973.929
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
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