Inside U.S.A.

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First published in 1948, this book provides insights into US politics and culture. The author set out from California and travelled to the Pacific Northwest, across the Rocky Mountains, the Great Plains states, and what was then the immense agricultural expanse of the Midwest, up to New England, and the down the Atlantic Seaboard to the South and Southwest. His observations along the way - on topics such as race relations, labour, the Tennessee Valley Authority, farm life, the politics of the big cities - offer a portrait of American life half a century ago.

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When I was writing Master of the Senate, I had [Inside U.S.A.] on my desk next to my typewriter, and whenever I needed to check on someone or something, all I had to do was open it up. And the sense it conveys about America in the postwar 1940s! Theres just nothing like it!Robert Caro

[Gunther] was areporterprobably the best America ever had. He came, he saw, he wrote.Robert Gottlieb, The New York Times

[V]ivid and acute. . . . an astonishing tour de force. It presents a shrewd, fast-moving, sparkling panorama of the United States at this historic moment of apparent triumph.Arthur Schlesinger Jr., The Atlantic

A Whitmanesque snapshot of the domestic political scene on the threshold of the postwar era. . . . Although later journalists, albeit only by team effort, eventually duplicated the scale of his canvas (that is, the entire U.S. political universe), none has ever matched the astuteness or piquancy of his characterizations of an entire generation of public figures.Mike Davis, in City of Quartz

The richest treasure-house of facts about America that has ever been published, and probably the most spirited and interesting.Sinclair Lewis

Author Bio

John Gunther (19011970) was an American journalist and the author of many books, including the acclaimed Inside Asia, Inside Latin America, Inside Europe, Inside U.S.A., and Death Be Not Proud.