Have a Nice Day: How I Stopped Sneering and Learned to Love America
By (Author) Justin Webb
Octopus Publishing Group
Short Books Ltd
11th September 2008
United Kingdom
General
Non Fiction
Politics and government
973.93
Hardback
288
Width 138mm, Height 218mm, Spine 26mm
440g
This title is about the real America: a nation more misunderstood than any other on Earth. It is a counter-blast to the lazy anti-Americanism that infects European thinking, an effort to answer the simple question, 'why is America so successful'.
Justin Webb is the BBC's North American Editor and an occasional presenter of the Today Programme on UK radio. He has spent the last six years shaping and leading the BBC's coverage of the US and its neighbours. His previous career included stints as a roving foreign correspondent during which he reported from the first Gulf War, the war in Bosnia, the collapse of the Soviet Union, the first democratic elections in South Africa, and even a coup in the Maldives. He lives in Washington DC with his family.