A seventy-year-old Northwestern journalism professor, Loren
Ghiglione, and two twenty-something Northwestern journalism
students, Alyssa Karas and Dan Tham, climbed into a minivan and
embarked on a three-month, twenty-eight state, 14,063-mile road
trip in search of America's identity. After interviewing 150
Americans about contemporary identity issues, they wrote this book,
which is part oral history, part shoe-leather reporting, part
search for America's future, part memoir, and part travel journal.
On their journey they retraced Mark Twain's travels across
America-from Hannibal, Missouri, to Chicago, New York, Boston,
Philadelphia, Washington, DC, New Orleans, Salt Lake City, San
Francisco, and Seattle. They hoped Twain's insights into the late
nineteenth-century soul of America would help them understand the
America of today and the ways that our cultural fabric has shifted.
Their interviews focused on issues of race, religion, gender,
sexual orientation, and immigration status. The timely trip
occurred as the United States was poised to replace president
Barack Obama, an icon of multiculturalism and inclusion, with
Donald Trump, whose white-identity agenda promoted exclusion and
division. What they learned along the way paints an engaging
portrait of the country during this crucial moment of ideological
and political upheaval.
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