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he was seventy years old, when he made a trip to Europe. He disliked much of what he found there, especially the food.

Bill Bryson turns away form the highways and byways of middle America, so hilariously depicted in his bestselling The Lost Continent, for a fast, exhilarating ride along the Route 66 of American language and popular culture.

In Made in America, Bryson de-mythologizes his native land - explaining how a dusty desert hamlet with neither woods nor holly became Hollywood, how the Wild West wasn't won, why Americans say 'lootenant' and 'Toosday', how Americans were eating junk food long before the word itself was cooked up - as well as exposing the true origins of the G-string, the original $64,000 question and Dr Kellogg of cornflakes fame.

Table of Contents

Cover

Made in America

Contents

Copyright

About the Author

Dedication

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1 The Mayflower and Before

2 Becoming Americans

3 A ‘Democratic Phrenzy’: America in the Age of Revolution

4 Making a Nation

5 By the Dawn’s Early Light: Forging a National Identity

6 We’re in the Money: The Age of Invention

7 Names

8 ‘Manifest Destiny’: Taming the West

9 The Melting-Pot: Immigration in America

10 When the Going was Good: Travel in America

11 What’s Cooking?: Eating in America

12 Democratizing Luxury: Shopping in America

13 Domestic Matters

14 The Hard Sell: Advertising in America

15 The Movies

16 The Pursuit of Pleasure: Sport and Play

17 Of Bombs and Bunkum: Politics and War

18 Sex and Other Distractions

19 The Road from Kitty Hawk

20 Welcome to the Space Age: The 1950s and Beyond

21 American English Today

Notes

Select Bibliography

Reviews

Also by Bill Bryson

Excerpt

Index

Footnotes

Synopsis