Hella Nation Looking for Happy Meals in Kandahar, Rocking the Side Pipe,Wingnut's War Against the Gap, and Other Adventures with the Totally Lost Tribes of America

by Wright, Evan

• ISBN13: 9780425232378
• ISBN10: 0425232379
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-03-02
• Publisher: Berkley Trade

Summary

The New York Timesbestselling author of Generation Killimmerses himself in even more cultures on the edge. Evan Wright's affinity for outsiders has inspired this deeply personal journey through what he calls "the lost tribes of America." A collection of previously published pieces, Hella Nationdelivers provocative accounts of sex workers in Porn Valley, a Hollywood über-agent-turned-war documentarian and hero of America's far right, runaway teens earning corporate dollars as skateboard pitchmen, radical anarchists plotting the overthrow of corporate America, and young American troops on the hunt for terrorists in the combat zones of the Middle East

Author Biography

Evan Wright is a contributing editor to Vanity Fair, and has also written for Rolling Stone, the New York Times, and the Los Angeles Times, among other numerous other publications.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Not Much War, but Plenty of Hell	p. 17
Piss Drunk	p. 35
Dance with a Stranger	p. 48
Wingnut's Last Day on Earth	p. 69
Heil Hitler, America!	p. 106
The Bad American	p. 119
Mad Dogs & Lawyers	p. 160
Tough Guy	p. 181
Portrait of a Con Artist	p. 198
Scenes from My Life in Porn	p. 224
Forever Fourteen	p. 251
Pat Dollard's War on Hollywood	p. 271
Acknowledgments	p. 339
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