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Oct 23, 2001 · Made in America basically tells the history of the United States, using its unique take on the English language as the medium by which to tell a fascinating historical, sociological, psychological, and cultural story, from America's beginnings with the blending of English and native languages that created a poetry of nomenclature, to the ...
- Bill Bryson
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Oct 22, 2010 · 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 ...
Nov 17, 2010 · English language -- United States -- History, Americanisms -- History Publisher New York : W. Morrow Collection printdisabled; internetarchivebooks; delawarecountydistrictlibrary; americana Contributor Internet Archive Language English
“A literate exploration of why we use—or mangle—our native tongue.”—USA Today Bill Bryson celebrates America’s 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.”
Sep 8, 2016 · His last critically lauded bestsellers were At Home: a Short History of Private Life, and One Summer: America 1927. Bill Bryson was born in the American Midwest, and now lives in the UK. A former Chancellor of Durham University, he was President of the Campaign to Protect Rural England for five years, and is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society.
Oct 23, 2001 · Journalist Bryson (Mother Tongue, Morrow, 1990) presents an engagingly written chronological history of the United States, focusing on popular culture and language. Along the way, he attempts to explain why American English is the way it is-why Americans paint the town red, talk turkey, keep a stiff upper lip, etc.
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- Bill Bryson
