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Stephen Fender - 50 Facts You Need to Know: USA: A Tour Through the Real America - 9781840468847 - KLN0016411
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50 Facts You Need to Know: USA: A Tour Through the Real America

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Description for 50 Facts You Need to Know: USA: A Tour Through the Real America Paperback.
The Land of the Free is the country everyone loves to attack. But how much do you really know about the USA? "Hot Rods, Handguns and Huckleberry Finn" is a popular exploration of the real America. This is a country with 50 capital cities, few of which anyone can name; a nation with 65 million gun-owners and 35,000 gun deaths each year; a place where there's one car for every adult, and where twice as many people claim to go to church as actually do. Burning the American flag, so the Supreme Court has ruled, is now a legitimate expression ... Read more

Product Details

Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Icon Books Ltd
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Duxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781840468847
SKU
KLN0016411
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-3

About Stephen Fender
Stephen Fender was born in San Francisco and educated at Stanford and in the UK at Wales and Manchester. He has taught in the States, in Scotland at the University of Edinburgh, and in England at London and Sussex, where he was head of American studies from 1985 to 2003. He now lives in Dulwich, south London.

Reviews for 50 Facts You Need to Know: USA: A Tour Through the Real America
'His thoughtful tour is a rich catalogue of what makes up the 'world’s most powerful but least understood nation.'’
Yo Zushi, New Statesman

Goodreads reviews for 50 Facts You Need to Know: USA: A Tour Through the Real America


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