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| Document Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Bill Bryson |
| ISBN: | 0380713810 9780380713813 |
| OCLC Number: | 34415961 |
| Description: | xiv, 417 p. ; 21 cm. |
| Contents: | The Mayflower and before -- Becoming Americans -- A "democrataical phrenzy": America in the age of revolution -- Making a nation -- By the dawn's early light: forging a national identity -- We're in the money: the age of invention -- Names -- "Manifest destiny": taming the West -- The melting pot: immigration in America -- When the going was good: travel in America -- What's cooking? Eating in America -- Democratizing luxury: shopping in America -- Manners and other matters -- The hard sell: advertising in America -- The movies -- The pursuit of pleasure: sport and play -- Of bombs and bunkum: politics and war -- Sex and other distractions -- From Kitty Hawk to the jumbo jet -- Welcome to the Space Age: the 1950s and beyond -- American English today. |
| Responsibility: | Bill Bryson. |
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