I recommend The American Home Front: 1941-1942 by Alistair Cooke. It's his last book and it's the tale of a couple of drives around wartime America. It is about as American a book as I know. On the road and dealing with problems we still have. Fear of Mexicans, anti-semitism, religiousity. Really well written. Joel.
Afterthought: BBC replayed some of Alistair Cooke's election night radio coverage earlier this summer, including his own amused astonishment at the triumph of Dewey over Truman, no wait it was the other way around. Might be still available somewhere in the Listenagain archives. Again, recall that for your convenience, we will be collecting all the Book Fair posts here.
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