Made in America
by Bryson, BillEdition: Reprint
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2010-04-15
Publisher(s): HarperCollins Publications
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Summary
Bill Bryson, who gave glorious voice to The Mother Tongue, now celebrates her magnificent offspring in the book that reveals once and for all how a dusty western hamlet with neither woods nor holly came to be known as Hollywood...and exactly why Mr. Yankee Doodle call his befeathered cap "Macaroni."
Table of Contents
| Introduction | |
| The Mayflower and Before | p. 1 |
| Becoming Americans | p. 13 |
| A "Democratical Phrenzy": America in the Age of Revolution | p. 30 |
| Making a Nation | p. 48 |
| By the Dawn's Early Light: Forging a National Identity | p. 64 |
| We're in the Money: The Age of Invention | p. 82 |
| Names | p. 100 |
| "Manifest Destiny": Taming the West | p. 119 |
| The Melting Pot: Immigration in America | p. 134 |
| When the Going Was Good: Travel in America | p. 156 |
| What's Cooking?: Eating in America | p. 180 |
| Democratizing Luxury: Shopping in America | p. 206 |
| Manners and Other Matters | p. 219 |
| The Hard Sell: Advertising in America | p. 235 |
| The Movies | p. 248 |
| The Pursuit of Pleasure: Sport and Play | p. 263 |
| Of Bombs and Bunkum: Politics and War | p. 287 |
| Sex and Other Distractions | p. 304 |
| From Kitty Hawk to the Jumbo Jet | p. 324 |
| Welcome to the Space Age: The 1950s and Beyond | p. 334 |
| American English Today | p. 352 |
| Notes on Sources | p. 365 |
| Select Bibliography | p. 385 |
| Index | p. 395 |
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