Genus Americanus Hitting the Road in Search of America’s Identity【電子書籍】[ Loren Ghiglione ]

＜p＞A seventy-year-old Northwestern journalism professor, Loren Ghiglione, and two twenty-something Northwestern journalism students, Alyssa Karas and Dan Tham, climbed into a minivan and embarked on a three-month, twenty-eight state, 14,063-mile road trip in search of America’s identity. After interviewing 150 Americans about contemporary identity issues, they wrote this book, which is part oral history, part shoe-leather reporting, part search for America’s future, part memoir, and part travel journal.＜/p＞ ＜p＞On their journey they retraced Mark Twain’s travels across Americaーfrom Hannibal, Missouri, to Chicago, New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Washington, DC, New Orleans, Salt Lake City, San Francisco, and Seattle. They hoped Twain’s insights into the late nineteenth-century soul of America would help them understand the America of today and the ways that our cultural fabric has shifted.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Their interviews focused on issues of race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, and immigr．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る