{"product_id":"americana-dispatches-from-the-new-frontier-9781400033553","title":"Americana: Dispatches from the New Frontier","description":"\u003cb\u003eHarley-Davidson bikers - Grand Canyon river rats - Mormon archaeologists - Spelling bee prodigies - For more than fifteen years, the bestselling, award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eBlood and Thunder \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Ghost Soldiers\u003c\/i\u003e has traveled widely across the continent exploring the America that lurks just behind the scrim of our mainstream culture. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis sparkling mosaic of our country, in all its wild and poignant charm, \"may be the best road trip you'll ever take--full of strange vision, hilarious detours, and sudden beauty in unlikely places\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReporting for \u003ci\u003eOutside\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, and NPR, among other national media, the award-winning journalist has established a reputation not only as a wry observer of the contemporary American scene but also as one of our more inventive and versatile practitioners of narrative non-fiction. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In these two dozen pieces, collected here for the first time, Sides gives us a fresh, alluring, and at times startling America brimming with fascinating subcultures and bizarre characters who could live nowhere else. Following Sides, we crash the redwood retreat of an apparent cabal of fabulously powerful military-industrialists, drop in on the Indy 500 of bass fishing, and join a giant techno-rave at the lip of the Grand Canyon. We meet a diverse gallery of American visionaries-- from the impossibly perky founder of Tupperware to Indian radical Russell Means to skateboarding legend Tony Hawk. We retrace the route of the historic Bataan Death March with veterans from Sides' acclaimed WWII epic, \u003cb\u003eGhost Soldiers\u003c\/b\u003e. Sides also examines the nation that has emerged from the ashes of September 11, recounting the harrowing journeys of three World Trade Center survivors and deciding at the last possible minute not to \"embed\" on the Iraqi front-lines with the U.S. Marines.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHAMPTON SIDES is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling histories \u003ci\u003eOn Desperate Ground, In the Kingdom of Ice, Hellhound on his Trail, Blood and Thunder\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eGhost Soldiers\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the PEN USA Award for Nonfiction. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Anchor Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50670650556690,"sku":"9781400033553","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_58767982-5e48-4730-aed7-4facab027946.jpg?v=1733785958","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/americana-dispatches-from-the-new-frontier-9781400033553","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}