How Not to Be American
Misadventures in the Land of the Free
Nonfiction, Travel, United States, Biography & Memoir
| Author: | Todd McEwen | ISBN: | 9781781312360 |
| Publisher: | Aurum Press | Publication: | October 3, 2013 |
| Imprint: | Language: | English |
| Author: | Todd McEwen |
| ISBN: | 9781781312360 |
| Publisher: | Aurum Press |
| Publication: | October 3, 2013 |
| Imprint: | |
| Language: | English |
‘ This new American uniform – the baseball cap, t-shirt, shorts and trainers (why not a scooter?) is not about looking good. It’ s about disappearing into a new, unofficial, global army of cultural babies. It says:
I eat hamburgers and watch TV and chew gum all day
I want everyone to play my game
You have to be nice to me and if you’ re not I’ m gonna shoot you
I can’ t understand a word you say
… and what is that but American foreign policy?’
Todd McEwen left the United States in 1980, but it’ s still driving him crazy. He worries about cheeseburgers, Cary Grant, Henry David Thoreau, democracy, the Elks Club and Daffy Duck. Join him on his acid-reflux examination of what America has come to be.
‘ This new American uniform – the baseball cap, t-shirt, shorts and trainers (why not a scooter?) is not about looking good. It’ s about disappearing into a new, unofficial, global army of cultural babies. It says:
I eat hamburgers and watch TV and chew gum all day
I want everyone to play my game
You have to be nice to me and if you’ re not I’ m gonna shoot you
I can’ t understand a word you say
… and what is that but American foreign policy?’
Todd McEwen left the United States in 1980, but it’ s still driving him crazy. He worries about cheeseburgers, Cary Grant, Henry David Thoreau, democracy, the Elks Club and Daffy Duck. Join him on his acid-reflux examination of what America has come to be.
