{"product_id":"to-america-with-love","title":"To America with Love","description":"\u003cp\u003eA celebrated British provocateur and Vanity Fair columnist serves up an immensely entertaining book inspired by his love and knowledge of America (Sunday Times  London).  IN TO AMERICA WITH LOVE  celebrated British provocateur and Vanity Fair columnist A. A. Gill traverses the Atlantic to become the freshest chronicler of American identity in recent memory. With a fiery temper  a sharp-tongued wit  and an insatiable curiosity to figure out what makes more than 300 million of the worlds population tick  Gill traces the history and logic of our nations habits  collecting wild stories and startling facts along the way. From Colorado  where he meets a local vegetation expert and learns which flowers were in Pocahontass nuptial bouquet  to Kentucky  where he visits the Creationist Museum and drinks moonshine with a hog farmer  and to Harlem  where he misses a turn and stumbles into the wrong barbershop for a once-in-a-lifetime haircut  Gill embarks on a tour of not only the nations landscape but also its psyche  playing adventurer  philosopher  statistician  and raconteur all at once. In inimitable fashion he explains why pressing a button in a Manhattan elevator means entering a social contract of American etiquette and inverting conventional hierarchies of space; why browsing through Playboy centerfolds becomes the perfect litmus test for a generations political views; and how Hollywood is the metaphysical marketplace for movies  the place where Americans are sold on American romance and taught how to dream the American dream.  Weaving together a tapestry of historical erudition and outrageous anecdotes  Gill ultimately captures the scope and spirit of a nation that started off as a conceptual experiment and became a political  scientific  and cultural fortress. This humorous and revelatory book shows us why we are who we are by transforming ordinary experiences into extraordinary lessons and promising to never let us look in the mirror the same way again.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44965522767925,"sku":"ByrdShop_1416596216","price":28.69,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781416596219.jpg?v=1770497342","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/to-america-with-love","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}