The seventy-fifth anniversary edition of Gunthers classic portrait of America John Gunthers Inside series were among the most popular books of reportage of the 1930s and 1940s. For Inside U.S.A. 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 New York Times calls Gunthers fluent personal casual snappy voice. Gunthers 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 worlds preeminent superpower. This seventy-fifth-anniversary edition of Inside U.S.A. 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.
