BookshelfMade in AmericaBill Bryson
Made in America
by Bill Bryson
- history
- americanisms
- english language
- social life and customs
- united states
- humor (nonfiction)
Keep track of it on your own bookshelf.
Log in to add itAbout this book
“A literate exploration of why we use—or mangle—our native tongue.”—USA Today
Bill Bryson celebrates America’s magnificent offspring in the book that reveals once and for all how a dusty western hamlet with neither woods nor holly came to be known as Hollywood…and exactly why Mr. Yankee Doodle call his befeathered cap “Macaroni.”
Quotes by Bill Bryson
From WikiquoteI come from Des Moines. Somebody had to.
My father liked Iowa. He lived his whole life in the state, and is even now working his way through eternity there, in Glendale Cemetery in Des Moines.
I had to calm down because a state trooper pulled up alongside me at a traffic light and began looking at me with that sort of casual disdain you often get when you give a dangerously stupid person a gun and a squad car.
More by Bill Bryson
All books-
The Best American Travel Writing 2000Bill BrysonThe Best American Travel Writing 2000Bill Bryson
-
Notes from a Small IslandBill BrysonNotes from a Small IslandBill Bryson
-
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt KidBill BrysonThe Life and Times of the Thunderbolt KidBill Bryson
-
A Walk in the WoodsBill BrysonA Walk in the WoodsBill Bryson
-
The Mother TongueBill BrysonThe Mother TongueBill Bryson
-
The road to Little DribblingBill BrysonThe road to Little DribblingBill Bryson
-
The BodyBill BrysonThe BodyBill Bryson
-
The Penguin dictionary of troublesome wordsBill BrysonThe Penguin dictionary of troublesome wordsBill Bryson
-
The Lost ContinentBill BrysonThe Lost ContinentBill Bryson
-
At HomeBill BrysonAt HomeBill Bryson
-
ShakespeareBill BrysonShakespeareBill Bryson
-
A short history of nearly everythingBill BrysonA short history of nearly everythingBill Bryson
-
Notes from a Big CountryBill BrysonNotes from a Big CountryBill Bryson
-
One SummerBill BrysonOne SummerBill Bryson
-
Bryson's dictionary for writers and editorsBill BrysonBryson's dictionary for writers and editorsBill Bryson
-
Bill Bryson African DiaryBill BrysonBill Bryson African DiaryBill Bryson
Similar books
by subject-
An Introduction to English GrammarGerald NelsonAn Introduction to English GrammarGerald Nelson
-
The Trouble With Being BornE. M. CioranThe Trouble With Being BornE. M. Cioran
-
El último adiósMary Higgins ClarkEl último adiósMary Higgins Clark
-
out of the shadowsjay strattonout of the shadowsjay stratton
-
The Setting SunOsamu DazaiThe Setting SunOsamu Dazai
-
ADHD 2.0Edward M. Hallowell, M.D.ADHD 2.0Edward M. Hallowell, M.D.
-
Organizing Solutions for People with ADHD, 3rd EditionSusan PinskyOrganizing Solutions for People with ADHD, 3rd EditionSusan Pinsky
-
Either/orSøren KierkegaardEither/orSøren Kierkegaard
-
Women, Race & ClassAngela Y. DavisWomen, Race & ClassAngela Y. Davis
-
The RebelAlbert CamusThe RebelAlbert Camus
-
Why I Am so CleverFriedrich NietzscheWhy I Am so CleverFriedrich Nietzsche
-
The Myth of SisyphusAlbert CamusThe Myth of SisyphusAlbert Camus
