Americana - by Hampton Sides (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>In "Americana," the bestselling author of "Ghost Soldiers" offers a dazzling mosaic of modern America in all its bizarre and poignant charm.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Harley-Davidson bikers . . . Grand Canyon river rats. . . Mormon archaeologists . . . Spelling bee prodigies . . . <p/> 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 <i>Outside</i>, <i>The New Yorker</i>, 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. <p/> 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, <b>Ghost Soldiers</b>. 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. <b>Americana</b> gives us a sparkling mosaic of our country, in all its wild and poignant charm.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"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 at <i>The New Yorker <p/></i>"'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 <i>Jarhead <p/></i>"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 <i>Stiff <p/></i>"This is a dream adventure you'll likely never get; fortunately, Sides has been there. Wry, exuberant, and always compassionate, <i>Americana</i> is pure pleasure." -Doug Stanton, author of <i>In Harm's Way <p/></i>"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 <i>Driving Mr. Albert<br></i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Hampton Sides is an award-winning editor of<i> Outside </i>and the author of the bestselling histories<i> Hellhound on his Trial, Blood and Thunder </i>and<i> Ghost Soldiers</i>. He lives in New Mexico with his wife, Anne, and their three sons.
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