{"product_id":"9781400033553","title":"Americana","description":"\u003cb\u003eHarley-Davidson bikers • Grand Canyon river rats • Mormon archaeologists • Spelling bee prodigies • For more than fifteen years, the bestselling, award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eBlood and Thunder \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Ghost Soldiers\u003c\/i\u003e has traveled widely across the continent exploring the America that lurks just behind the scrim of our mainstream culture. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis sparkling mosaic of our country, in all its wild and poignant charm, “may be the best road trip you’ll ever take—full of strange vision, hilarious detours, and sudden beauty in unlikely places” (\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReporting for \u003ci\u003eOutside\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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, \u003cb\u003eGhost Soldiers\u003c\/b\u003e. 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.","brand":"Hampton Sides","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":45895476150484,"sku":"9781400033553","price":27.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/9208\/files\/BNCImageAPI_ea46e63f-8ddd-4300-a361-2edfd6748d5c.jpg?v=1702518598","url":"https:\/\/penguinshop.ca\/products\/9781400033553","provider":"Penguin Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}