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Americana: Dispatches from the New Frontier

Description

Harley-Davidson bikers . . . Grand Canyon river rats. . .Mormon archaeologists. . . Spelling bee prodigies…

For more than fifteen years, best-selling author and historian Hampton Sides has traveled widely across the continent exploring the America that lurks just behind the scrim of our mainstream culture. Reporting for Outside, The New Yorker, and NPR, among other national media, the award-winning journalist has established a reputation not only as a wry observer of the contemporary American scene but also as one of our more inventive and versatile practitioners of narrative non-fiction.

In these two dozen pieces, collected here for the first time, Sides gives us a fresh, alluring, and at times startling America brimming with fascinating subcultures and bizarre characters who could live nowhere else. Following Sides, we crash the redwood retreat of an apparent cabal of fabulously powerful military-industrialists, drop in on the Indy 500 of bass fishing, and join a giant techno-rave at the lip of the Grand Canyon. We meet a diverse gallery of American visionaries— from the impossibly perky founder of Tupperware to Indian radical Russell Means to skateboarding legend Tony Hawk. We retrace the route of the historic Bataan Death March with veterans from Sides’ acclaimed WWII epic, Ghost Soldiers. Sides also examines the nation that has emerged from the ashes of September 11, recounting the harrowing journeys of three World Trade Center survivors and deciding at the last possible minute not to "embed" on the Iraqi front-lines with the U.S. Marines. Americana gives us a sparkling mosaic of our country today, in all its wild and poignant charm.

Experience the many faces of America with Hampton Sides as he:

AMERICAN ORIGINALS
. . . drops in on the charmed life of skateboarding icon Tony Hawk; studies counter-terrorism at the G. Gordon Liddy spy school; goes Hollywood with American Indian Movement radical-turned-movie-star Russell Means; steps out of the closet with Mel White, religious right ghostwriter-turned-gay activist; mushes the Iditarod Trail with Alaska legend Joe Redington.

AMERICAN EDENS
. . . runs the rapids during a man-made flood in the Grand Canyon; crashes the redwood retreat of California’s elite Bohemian Club; debriefs the “bio-nauts” as they emerge from captivity in the Biosphere; dives into America’s greatest swimming hole; gets ecstatic with the Zippies at their secret all-night techno-rave.

AMERICAN RIDES
. . . ponders silver bubbles at the annual Airstream RV convention; revs it up at the Harley-Davidson rally in Sturgis, South Dakota; sails the Chesapeake with snooty owners of a rare antique sailboat known as the log canoe; roams the streets with D.C.’s hard-core band of bike couriers.

AMERICAN BY BIRTH, SOUTHERN BY THE GRACE OF . . .
. . . speaks in tongues with black Pentecostalists of the Memphis-based Church of God in Christ; fishes for lunkers at the Bassmasters Classic; goes underground with the world’s greatest cave rescuer; unravels the mystery of a notorious teen murder in rural Mississippi.

AMERICANS ABROAD
. . . crosses the Sahara Desert with American endurance runners at the infernal Marathon des Sables; bushwhacks through MesoAmerica with Mormon archaeologists in search of lost tribes of Israel; visits a high school friend who’s become an Uzi-toting Zionist pioneer in the West Bank; walks the route of the Bataan Death March with characters from Ghost Soldiers.

AMERICAN OBSESSIONS
. . . cranks it up with high-end stereophiles at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas; gets bowled over by 5,000 squealing salesladies at the annual Tupperware convention; plumbs the mysteries of the "schwa" at the National Spelling Bee; scrapes at the stucco of the neurotic architectural tradition known as Santa Fe Style.

AMERICA, POST 9/11
. . . traces the harrowing stories of three World Trade Center survivors; goes off-roading in the Imperial Sand Dunes; almost embeds on the Iraqi frontlines with the U.S. Marines; remembers Shane Childers, the decorated Marine who became the first American combat death in Iraq.

Reviews

Rating: 4 / 5
Date: 2010-08-23
Summary: "Great story teller"

Written over a space of time, these stories are collected from Hampton's travel across america and what the things are that make this country culturally, for better or worse.
Hampton Sides has the ability to tell a story, like David Halberstam, and that is the largest compliment I can give.
Well worth the read. Some are heartfelt, some make you laugh, depending on where you're from.

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Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2009-11-29
Summary: "A Review of Americana"

Americana by Hampton Sides is easy to read and interesting. The volume is composed of 30 short, non-fiction, people pieces. Each article offers a snippet of the kaleidoscope of the American character. Sides has a talent at choosing intriguing topics. Some of the topics are satirical, but, not with malice. Sides seems to attempt to bring understanding to each of the pieces by including lots of interesting facts. One piece, for example, on spelling bees and modern spelling contests includes a whole host of information on why the English language presents such spelling difficulties, and why English English and American English have evolved differently.

Some of the topics are of a more realistic bent. One, on the first American death in the second Iraq war and another portraying the impact of the 9/11 - Twin Towers collapse on several individuals are some of the best prose pieces I have read. For just plain writing fun and humor, two of my favorite pieces characterize the annual "Hog" motorcycle conflagration at Sturgis, South Dakota; and Biosphere 2 in Arizona, at the two-year exit. Taken in aggregate these diverse glimpses of America portray the individualism of America. Sides choses two words to integrate these individual stories of American character: confidence and openness.

Read this book. I think you will enjoy it.

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Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2009-09-29
Summary: "Subculture serendipity"

In "Americana,"Sides explores "our knack for spawning subcultures." He writes that "Ours is a land of refined fanaticism. Anything we might dream of doing, we can find a society of Americans who are already doing it and doing it so intensely that they've organized their lives aorund it." He thus takes us to a gathering of Airstream owners, to a boot camp for would-be counter-terrorists, to Sturgis, to the Bassmasters finals. But fanaticism has its evil side as well, and Sides' ability to report and write is so good that it becomes painful -- though important -- to read his closing stories about 911 and its aftermath.

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Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2008-05-10
Summary: "Makes me interested in the not so interesting - Kindle Version"

Skateboarder? Why would I even be interested in a skateboarder? Yet Sides writes it so well, I couldn't put it down!

I read with anticipation his meeting Gordon Liddy but Liddy doesn't show up until the end for just a small bit. Yet getting there was so much fun! And I am not even interested in Liddy.

I love having this book on my Kindle. I know I can 'open it up' anytime and find a great short story to read.

Hampton Sides - keep 'em coming!

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Rating: 2 / 5
Date: 2007-06-18
Summary: "Disappointed"

After reading "Ghost Soldiers" I found "Americana" to be disappointing.

"Americana" is a collection of unrelated magazine articles, and they seem to have been written to accompany the photos of the magazine, instead of standing on their own. Some of the characters Sides writes about are interesting, but there's not much drama to the essays.

Sides is an outstanding writer, as he proved with "Ghost Soldiers" -- a captivating and amazing story that was hard to put down. But be cautioned: "Americana" takes effort to get through!