Made in America

by Bill Bryson (Author), Bill Bryson (Author), Bruce Mccall (Illustrator)

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  Hardcover
  1997

  $4.20

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  Paperback
  1995

  $3.25

  Travel writer Bill Bryson looks at the language of America and explains the history behind it, including the origins of phrases such as The real McCoy and the G-string ; why two humble bicycle repairmen from Ohio succeeded in mastering manned flight when the world's greatest engineers couldn't get a model aircraft off the ground; why the assassination of President Garfield led to the invention of air conditioning; and how a lonesome hamburger stand at the end of Route 66 provided the inspiration for McDonald's .

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  Hardcover
  1994

  $3.82