State by State : A Panoramic Portrait of America

by Weiland, Matt

• ISBN13: 9780061470912
• ISBN10: 0061470910
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publications

Summary

From the bestselling editors of "The Thinking Fan's Guide to the World Cup" comes an American road trip in book form: original writing on all 50 states by 50 of America's finest novelists, journalists, and essayists.

Author Biography

Matt Weiland has worked on Granta, The Paris Review, and The Baffler, as well as a documentary unit at NPR. He is the co-editor, with Sean Wilsey of The Thinking Fan's Guide to the World Cup and, with Thomas Frank, of Commodity Your Dissent. Sean Wilsey is the author of a memoir, Oh the Glory of It, All, and the editor-at-larger for McSweeney's quarterly. He is at work on a book about NASA.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. xi
Introduction	p. xix
Alabama	p. 3
Alaska	p. 15
Arizona	p. 26
Arkansas	p. 33
California	p. 42
Colorado	p. 56
Connecticut	p. 66
Delaware	p. 77
Florida	p. 90
Georgia	p. 103
Hawaii	p. 111
Idaho	p. 120
Illinois	p. 129
Indiana	p. 141
Iowa	p. 154
Kansas	p. 167
Kentucky	p. 173
Louisiana	p. 182
Maine	p. 194
Maryland	p. 203
Massachusetts	p. 209
Michigan	p. 223
Minnesota	p. 232
Mississippi	p. 241
Missouri	p. 248
Montana	p. 260
Nebraska	p. 265
Nevada	p. 274
New Hampshire	p. 287
New Jersey	p. 300
New Mexico	p. 308
New York	p. 320
North Carolina	p. 339
North Dakota	p. 348
Ohio	p. 357
Oklahoma	p. 363
Oregon	p. 368
Pennsylvania	p. 377
Rhode Island	p. 391
South Carolina	p. 402
South Dakota	p. 415
Tennessee	p. 428
Texas	p. 435
Utah	p. 447
Vermont	p. 460
Virginia	p. 469
Washington	p. 479
West Virginia	p. 487
Wisconsin	p. 501
Wyoming	p. 514
Afterword: Washington, D.C.- A Conversation	p. 525
The 50 States in Numbers	p. 533
Acknowledgments	p. 565
About the Contributors	p. 566
About the Editors	p. 573
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