In Search Of Nice Americans

Author : Geoff Steward
Publisher : Biteback Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1785903063
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Search of Nice Americans written by Geoff Steward and published by Biteback Publishing. This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How one man's mid-career crisis turned into an odyssey into the weirder side of American life. Like most of us, Geoff Steward was rocked by 2016's litany of horrors. Unlike most of us, Geoff did something about it. Turning his back on his day job as a lawyer - and the requirement to account for every six minutes of his time - Geoff set off across America in hot pursuit of bears, honky-tonk bars and, above all, nice Americans to restore his faith in the world. Armed only with his blend of waspish wit and mischievous charm, Geoff roamed from New York to Alaska, meeting ordinary Americans such as Joe le Taxi, the former NYPD police officer who was one of the first on the scene at the Twin Towers; Pam and Bob, a paranoid psychiatrist and a failed actor who once saw the back of Meryl Streep's head; and Sheriff Duke of Calhoun County, who reintroduced Geoff to the long (and armed) arm of the law. For anyone at a crossroads, contemplating a temporary or permanent career break, this hilarious travel romp offers a new hope.

Author : Geoff Steward
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781785902635
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Search of Nice Americans written by Geoff Steward and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One lawyer's mid-career crisis becomes an entertaining odyssey discovering the wild and weirder side of American life.

Author : Peter Jennings
Publisher : Hyperion Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Search of America written by Peter Jennings and published by Hyperion Books. This book was released on 2002-09-03 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this essential new volume, Peter Jennings and Todd Brewster, the bestselling authors of The Century, take readers on a journey through the United States, and into the great themes of American identity. In Search of America explores the most controversial and liveliest debates of the day, and then moves back in time to the earliest days of the country's founding, to answer this central question: How have the ideals and principles on which the United States was founded served us -- have they withstood the inexorable march of time?

Author : John Steinbeck
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780140187410
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Travels with Charley in Search of America written by John Steinbeck and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1997-04-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intimate journey across America, as told by one of its most beloved writers A Penguin Classic In September 1960, John Steinbeck embarked on a journey across America. He felt that he might have lost touch with the country, with its speech, the smell of its grass and trees, its color and quality of light, the pulse of its people. To reassure himself, he set out on a voyage of rediscovery of the American identity, accompanied by a distinguished French poodle named Charley; and riding in a three-quarter-ton pickup truck named Rocinante. His course took him through almost forty states: northward from Long Island to Maine; through the Midwest to Chicago; onward by way of Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana (with which he fell in love), and Idaho to Seattle, south to San Francisco and his birthplace, Salinas; eastward through the Mojave, New Mexico, Arizona, to the vast hospitality of Texas, to New Orleans and a shocking drama of desegregation; finally, on the last leg, through Alabama, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey to New York. Travels with Charley in Search of America is an intimate look at one of America's most beloved writers in the later years of his life—a self-portrait of a man who never wrote an explicit autobiography. Written during a time of upheaval and racial tension in the South—which Steinbeck witnessed firsthand—Travels with Charley is a stunning evocation of America on the eve of a tumultuous decade. This Penguin Classics edition includes an introduction by Jay Parini. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Author : Katharine Lee Bates
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 031606923X
Total Pages : 55 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book America the Beautiful written by Katharine Lee Bates and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2009-02-28 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A direct descendant of the composer of "America the Beautiful" honors his ancestry and national pride with historical and contemporary imagery. Musical notation and an Author's Note, as well as the song's lyrics in Bates's handwriting, are included. Full color.

Author : Jeanne Mackin
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101635622
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Beautiful American written by Jeanne Mackin and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Paris in the 1920s to London after the Blitz, two women find that a secret from their past reverberates through years of joy and sorrow.... As recovery from World War II begins, expat American Nora Tours travels from her home in southern France to London in search of her missing sixteen-year-old daughter. There, she unexpectedly meets up with an old acquaintance, famous model-turned-photographer Lee Miller. Neither has emerged from the war unscathed. Nora is racked with the fear that her efforts to survive under the Vichy regime may have cost her daughter’s life. Lee suffers from what she witnessed as a war correspondent photographing the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps. Nora and Lee knew each other in the heady days of late 1920s Paris, when Nora was giddy with love for her childhood sweetheart, Lee became the celebrated mistress of the artist Man Ray, and Lee’s magnetic beauty drew them all into the glamorous lives of famous artists and their wealthy patrons. But Lee fails to realize that her friendship with Nora is even older, that it goes back to their days as children in Poughkeepsie, New York, when a devastating trauma marked Lee forever. Will Nora’s reunion with Lee give them a chance to forgive past betrayals…and break years of silence to forge a meaningful connection as women who have shared the best and the worst that life can offer? A novel of freedom and frailty, desire and daring, The Beautiful American portrays the extraordinary relationship between two passionate, unconventional women. Readers Guide Included

Author : MELTZER DAVID J
Publisher : Smithsonian Books (DC)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book SEARCH FOR 1ST AMER written by MELTZER DAVID J and published by Smithsonian Books (DC). This book was released on 1993 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the history of the search for the first inhabitants of the Americas, discussing what has been learned through archaeological research, and analyzing controversial discoveries found at sites throughout North and South America.

Author : Alex George
Publisher : G.P. Putnam's Sons
ISBN 13 : 0425253171
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Good American written by Alex George and published by G.P. Putnam's Sons. This book was released on 2013-02-05 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cloth bag containing eight copies of the title and a folder containing book sign out sheets.

Author : Gabor Bethlenfalvay
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1462880509
Total Pages : 541 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Search of an America written by Gabor Bethlenfalvay and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-07-06 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in Hungary, author Gabor Bethlenfalvay spent his early childhood under privileged circumstances that he remembers as his Garden of Eden. It was a paradise until the end of World War II. He tells of the events of joy and of tragedy in his life before and after the war in his Xlibris publication: In Search of an America: An Introvert on the Road. In this ‘tale of the road’ the author relives how he and his family fled west, just before the Red Army overran his hometown, to end up in a small village in Bavaria. There, six years of exile were spent absorbing a classical education amid the rubble of post-war Germany, until emigration to the United States became possible. Assembly lines in Chicago and in Omaha were the author's first introduction to the New World, until he found his path to Military Service. He became a paratrooper and an officer but decided to return to school to study physics. In spite of an advanced degree, doubts about his vocation pulled him back into the Army. The war in Vietnam finally impelled him to resign his commission for good and to strike out for California with his young family to study biology, a decision that led to a doctorate and a research career exploring the web of life in the soil. The repeated back-and-forth between academia and the military and between Europe and the USA helps him explore and compare religious, political, sociological and scientific attitudes and patterns of thinking in the Old and New Worlds. He learns to view his new home with critical detachment. A candid look into a colorful life journey during one of history’s most tumultuous times, In Search of an America: An Introvert on the Road chronicles how one man finally realized that the long road that led him to the fog-shrouded mountain outside his study window in San Luis Obispo was all part of his search for his personal utopia, 'an america,' that of his childhood dreams.

Author : Dr. Badal W. Kariye
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1468554182
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Nice Lover written by Dr. Badal W. Kariye and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-02-21 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This novel is based on true history of love, jealousy of polygamy, betrayal, and how you can survive it in a foreign country where you've arrived in as a refugee or immigrant in love who needs constant assistance from the government and local charity organizations. It's very hard to fall in love with somebody or forget your lover easily when the lover immigrates to a foreign nation where you can't communicate with your lover even if she or he doesn't communicate with you frequently. Let me tell you love needs special medication, and the true medication is the reunification of the beloved lovers who went apart for sometime regardless any issues and whatsoever separated them. This novel will also help you if you're a refugee or an immigrant in the United States of America because it'll teach you whatever you may need as new a refugee or an immigrant until you fully become a true citizen of the United States of America while you'll be overcoming the obstacles in your love and the lifestyle in America. I wrote this novel for you to simply enjoy and learn how you can survive in love and your life in the United States of America, and it's truly based on lovers whom I missed them to marry, and how they really survived in their new American lifestyle. Following the right footsteps of your honesty love can mislead you sometimes, and you'll be in the middle of nowhere. Hopefully, this novel can help you to master love, find solution for its obstacles and adjust your new lifestyle peacefully in America. This is also intended for every lover who likes to experiment the meaning of a true love that ends in endless lies and a disastrous jealousy of separation forever between two beloved lovers. Enjoy with me as you're reading something valuable to your new life adjustment in love and America. Good Luck!