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Made in America

Made in America
Made in America Made in America
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Kiadó: Black Swan
Kiadás helye: London
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Kötés típusa: Ragasztott papírkötés
Oldalszám: 478 oldal
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Nyelv: Angol  
Méret: 20 cm x 13 cm
ISBN: 0-552-99805-2
Megjegyzés: Fekete-fehér illusztrációkkal.
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'THE BOOK IS A TRIUMPH. BRYSON CARRIES IT OFF BY HIS JOIE DE VIVRE, HIS UNADORNED PROSE AND THE SHEER WIDTH OF HIS SNOOPING BENEATH THE SKIN OF THE AMERICAN DREAM5 Literary Review Bill Bryson turns away from the highways and byways of middle America, so hilariously depicted in his bestselling The Lost Continent, for a fast, exhilarating ride along the Route 66 of American language and popular culture. In Made in America, Bryson de-mythologizes his native land - explaining how a dusty desert hamlet with neither woods nor holly became Hollywood, how the Wild West wasn't won, why Americans say 'lootenant' and 'Toosday', how Americans were eating junk food long before the word itself was cooked up - as well as exposing the true origins of the G-string, the original $64,000 question and Dr Kellogg of cornflakes fame. 6 A tremendously sassy work, full of zip, pizzazz and all those other great American qualities' Will Self, Independent on Sunday 'Immensely entertaining...a sharp eye for... Tovább

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'THE BOOK IS A TRIUMPH. BRYSON CARRIES IT OFF BY HIS JOIE DE VIVRE, HIS UNADORNED PROSE AND THE SHEER WIDTH OF HIS SNOOPING BENEATH THE SKIN OF THE AMERICAN DREAM5 Literary Review Bill Bryson turns away from the highways and byways of middle America, so hilariously depicted in his bestselling The Lost Continent, for a fast, exhilarating ride along the Route 66 of American language and popular culture. In Made in America, Bryson de-mythologizes his native land - explaining how a dusty desert hamlet with neither woods nor holly became Hollywood, how the Wild West wasn't won, why Americans say 'lootenant' and 'Toosday', how Americans were eating junk food long before the word itself was cooked up - as well as exposing the true origins of the G-string, the original $64,000 question and Dr Kellogg of cornflakes fame. 6 A tremendously sassy work, full of zip, pizzazz and all those other great American qualities' Will Self, Independent on Sunday 'Immensely entertaining...a sharp eye for odd facts and amusing anecdotes' Michael Shelden, Daily Telegraph BUY THIS BOOK AT ONCE AND HAVE A NICE DAY Vissza

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Contents
List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgements xi
Introduction • • • XUl
I The Mayflower and Before I
2 Becoming Americans 17
3 A 'Democratic Phrenzy': America in the Age of Revolution 37
4 Making a Nation 59
5 By the Dawn's Early Light: Forging a National Identity 77
6 We're in the Money: The Age of Invention IOI
7 Names 122
8 'Manifest Destiny': Taming the West 145
9 The Melting-Pot: Immigration in America 162
IO When the Going was Good: Travel in America 188
II What's Cooking?: Eating in America 215
12 Democratizing Luxury: Shopping in America *45
13 Domestic Matters 9
14 The Hard Sell: Advertising in America 279
The Movies 295
16 The Pursuit of Pleasure: Sport and Play 315
17 Of Bombs and Bunkum: Politics and War 340
18 Sex and Other Distractions 359
19 The Road from Kitty Hawk 385
20 Welcome to the Space Age: The 1950s and Beyond 399
21 American English Today 419
Notes 433
Select Bibliography 453
Index 465

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