Name: Americana: Dispatches From the new Frontier (en Inglés)
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Author: Sides, Hampton
ISBN: 9781400033553

portada Americana: Dispatches From the new Frontier (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Hampton Sides

Editorial

Anchor Books

Año

2004

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

464

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

20.1 x 13.0 x 2.5 cm

Peso

0.34 kg.

ISBN

1400033551

ISBN13

9781400033553

N° edición

Categorías

Estados unidos de américa
Materia antropología social y cultural etnográfica
Literatura de viajes

Americana: Dispatches From the new Frontier (en Inglés)

Hampton Sides (Autor) · Anchor Books · Tapa Blanda

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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.