Bibliograph

Americana, dispatches from the new frontier, Hampton Sides

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Americana, dispatches from the new frontier, Hampton Sides

Language

eng

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Americana

Oclc number

53289674

Responsibility statement

Hampton Sides

Sub title

dispatches from the new frontier

Summary

"For more than fifteen years, Hampton Sides has traveled the continent exploring the America that thrives just behind the surface of our mainstream culture. In this collection of thirty pieces, we follow Sides as he crashes the redwood retreat of an apparent cabal of powerful military-industrialists, drops in on the Indy 500 of bass fishing, and joins 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's acclaimed WWII epic, <i>Ghost Soldiers</i>. 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. <i>Americana</i> gives us a sparkling mosaic of our country today, in all its wild and poignant charm." --Back cover

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