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Description
Product details
| Published | 31 May 2018 |
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| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 384 |
| ISBN | 9781408894804 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Dimensions | 234 x 153 mm |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Reviews
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A ripping yarn ... Behold, America is an enthralling book ... Passionate, well-researched and comprehensive
Guardian
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Excoriating, brilliant
Ali Smith, Big Issue, Summer Reads
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Enormously entertaining. Churchwell is a careful and sensitive reader, writes with great vigour and has a magpie's eye for a revealing story
Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times
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A fascinating history of the two intersecting tropes of modern America
New Statesman
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Lively and eminently readable … Churchwell has produced a timely and clearly argued book that makes a clear case for the intellectual parallels between the first third of the 20th century and our own
Financial Times
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[An] enlightening new cultural history … The shadow of the 45th President hangs over all 300 pages of Behold, America, a book designed expressly to demonstrate just how that history rhymes with the present … While it is indeed a history of two phrases, Behold, America is also a history of the people who used them … An American in the UK, [Churchwell] has the benefit of an outside perspective on the country of her birth, which is prone to national self-delusions just as grand as Britain's, if not more so. Behold, America punctures many of them
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