A veteran journalist explores the United States at the end of World War II, gathering facts, recording his impressions, and foretelling with surprising accuracy problems that would plague the country for the remainder of the twentieth century
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<b>The seventy-fifth anniversary edition of Gunther’s classic portrait of America</b>
<p>John Gunther’s <em>Inside</em> series were among the most popular books of reportage of the 1930s and 1940s. For <em>Inside U.S.A.</em>, his magnum opus, Gunther set out from California and visited every state in the country, offering frank, lucid, and humorous observations along the way in what legendary publisher Robert Gottlieb, writing in the <em>New York Times</em>, calls Gunther’s “fluent, personal, casual, snappy” voice. Gunther’s insights on race, labor, the impact of massive New Deal public works projects, rural life, urbanization, and much more yield fascinating insight into life in a postwar America that had vaulted into the status of the world’s preeminent superpower.</p>
<p>This seventy-fifth-anniversary edition of <em>Inside U.S.A.</em> provides an invaluable picture of America as it was and is both a delight to read and filled with insights that remain deeply relevant today.</p>
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