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Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States by Bill Bryson; Bruce McCall (illustrator) is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States about?
Bill Bryson turns away from 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. Buy this book at once and have a nice day!Chapters: The Mayflower and Before; Becoming Americans; A "Democratic Phrenzy": America in the Age of Revolutions; Making a Nation; By the Dawn's Early Light: Forging a National Identity; We're in the Money: The Age of Invention; Names; "Manifest Destiny": Taming the West; The Melting-pot: Immigration in America; When the Going Was Good: Travel in America; What's Cooking?: Eating in America; Domestic Matters; The Hard Sell: Advertising in America; The Movies; The Pursuit of Pleasure: Sport and Play; Of Bombs
Who reads Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States?
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Bill Bryson; Bruce McCall (illustrator)
- Publisher
- Black Swan (Transworld)
- Published
- 1999
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780552998055
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humor
- Rating
- 3.89 / 5 (388 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
Other editions & translations
- Made in America : an informal history of the English language in the United States (1994)
- Made in America (1998)
- Made in America : an informal history of the English language in the United States (2015)
- Made In America An Informal History of American English (2009)
- Made in America : an informal history of American English (2015)
- Made In America(c.1) (1994)
- Made in America : an informal history of the English language in the United States (1996)
- Bill Bryson: made in america (1994)
- Made In America An Informal History of American English (2016)
- Made in America : an informal history of the English language in the United States (1995)
- Made In America An Informal History of American English (1994)
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