Slow Road to San Francisco: Across the USA from Ocean to Ocean

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From Ocean City, Maryland to San Francisco, Reynolds traverses the US and observes - with remarkable honesty and insight not to mention a humorous and sometimes sceptical eye Trumps America, and the Americans way of life. As he moseys from east to west, driving slowly, stopping frequently he meets a huge variety of Americans white, black, Hispanic, Asian, native American; Christian, Muslim, atheist, Mormon, Mennonite; rich, middling, poor. They talk about everything from slavery, Indian reservations, fracking and forest fires to baseball, beer, the blues, Butch Cassidy, and Marilyn Monroe. Everyone has something to say about Donald Trump, from those who love him to those who hate him. Reynolds follows the direction of history, the direction taken by explorers and pioneer settlers. As he travels he conjures a vivid picture of the US then and now; its landscape and its people in all their diversity.

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David Reynolds was one of the original founders of Bloomsbury Publishing where he was Deputy MD and Editorial Director. He is the author of Swan River (shortlisted for the Pen/Ackerley Prize for literary autobiography) and Slow Road to Brownsville published to great reviews.