Inside U.S.A.
About this book
John Gunther’s Inside series were among the most popular books of reportage of the 1930s and 1940s. For Inside U.S.A., his magnum opus, Gunther set out from California and visited every state in the country, offering frank, lucid, and humorous observations along the way in what legendary publisher Robert Gottlieb, writing in the New York Times, calls Gunther’s “fluent, personal, casual, snappy” voice. Gunther’s insights on race, labor, the impact of massive New Deal public works projects, rural life, urbanization, and much more yield fascinating insight into life in a postwar America that had vaulted into the status of the world’s preeminent superpower.
This seventy-fifth-anniversary edition of Inside U.S.A. provides an invaluable picture of America as it was and is both a delight to read and filled with insights that remain deeply relevant today.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Table of Contents
- Inside U.S.A.âChart
- Total United States Populationâ1940
- Foreword
- Chapter 1. California the Golden
- Chapter 2. A Bouquet of Californians
- Chapter 3. More About California, Its How and Why
- Chapter 4. Life and Works of Henry Kaiser
- Chapter 5. Ghosts and Silver in Nevada
- Chapter 6. Pacific Northwest Coming Up
- Chapter 7. Two Freshmen from the Mountain Slopes
- Chapter 8. Highways in the Sky
- Chapter 9. Staff and Stuff of Life, Plus Timber
- Chapter 10. Invitation to the West
- Chapter 11. The Montana Frontier
- Chapter 12. MVAvs. Behemoth River
- Chapter 13. Utah and the Mormons: Profile of a Community
- Chapter 14. âBut Scenery Is Not Enough
- Chapter 15. âStop Roaming, Try Wyomingâ
- Chapter 16. The Miraculous Dakotas
- Chapter 17. On the Extreme Particularity of Kansas
- Chapter 18. Mind of the Middle West
- Chapter 19. Stassen: Young Man Going Somewhere
- Chapter 20. More About Minnesota, Plus Wisconsin
- Chapter 21. Iowa, Corn and Pigs
- Chapter 22. Notes for a Portrait of Missouri
- Chapter 23. Chicago Tribune, Illinois, and Indiana-
- Chapter 24. A Talk with Vandenberg
- Chapter 25. World on Wheels: Ford Dynasty & UAW
- Chapter 26. Men and Politics in Ohio
- Chapter 27. âAnd More from the Ohio Mill
- Chapter 28. Inside New England I
- Chapter 29. Saltonstall
- Chapter 30. Inside New England II
- Chapter 31. Natural History in Massachusetts
- Chapter 32. New York: Dewey and the State
- Chapter 33. New York: Sketch of Megalopolis, with a Word on Wall Street
- Chapter 34. The Not-So-Little Flower
- Chapter 35. Hague Machine and New Jersey
- Chapter 36. The Great State of Pennsylvania-
- Chapter 37. Pennsylvania: Steel and Pittsburgh
- Chapter 38. Atlantic Seaboard
- Chapter 39. Romance and Reality in Kentucky
- Chapter 40. The South: Problem Child of the Nation
- Chapter 41. Negro in the Woodpile
- Chapter 42. The Southeastern Marches
- Chapter 43. Model TVA
- Chapter 44. More About Tennessee, Plus Arkansas
- Chapter 45. Amali, Talmadge, and the State of Georgia
- Chapter 46. Cotton, No Longer King, and the Former Realm of Huey Long
- Chapter 47. The Giant World of Texas
- Chapter 48. Who and Why in Texas Politics
- Chapter 49. University, God, and Beef
- Chapter 50. Oklahoma and the Indians
- Chapter 51. Last Stop: the New States of the Southwest
- Chapter 52. Finale
- Acknowledgments; List of Names
- Bibliography; Sources
- Index
