50 Facts You Need to Know: USA
UK £9.99,Canada $20.00,
UK Publication February 2008
ISBN 9781840468847
Paperback
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For 38 years San Francisco had a freeway that ended in mid air. Hot Rod Magazine, with over 7.5 million readers, is among the most popular of any car publication in the world.
More than 37 million Americans live below official poverty guidelines.
The United States of America 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. One city in Kentucky elected a black Labrador as its mayor. The US produces a quarter of all CO2 emissions, and has a population rising twice as fast as that of the EU. German could have been the national language. Republican states especially are generous givers to charity, and they have a world-beating welfare state: the military.
Stephen Fender presents a vibrant, proud and yet critical portrait of the world's most powerful but least understood nation. Whether you love it or hate it, are about to visit or just keen to know more, the USA is here to stay. These fifty facts are the essential alternative guide.
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'His thoughtful tour is a rich catalogue of what makes up the "world’s most powerful but least understood nation".' - New Statesman
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Stephen Fender was born in San Francisco and educated at Stanford and in the UK in 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.
See more books by: Stephen Fender
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