Made in America : : an Informal History of the English Language in the United States
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The Mayflower and before -- Becoming Americans -- A "democrataical phrenzy": America in the age of revolution -- 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 -- Democratizing luxury: shopping in America -- Manners and other matters -- The hard sell: advertising in America -- The movies -- The pursuit of pleasure: sport and play -- Of bombs and bunkum: politics and war -- Sex and other distractions -- From Kitty Hawk to the jumbo jet -- Welcome to the Space Age: the 1950s and beyond -- American English today.
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You can't go wrong submitted by tbbrown76 on July 2, 2014, 8:21pm with a good BIll Bryson book. All are recommended. Thanks.
PUBLISHED
New York : Avon Books, 1996.
Year Published: 1996
Description: 417 p. ; 21 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0380713810
9780380713813
SUBJECTS
English language -- History.
Americanisms -- History.