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9798999146748: 250 Great American Things: A semi-quincentennial celebration
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ISBN 13 : 9798999146748
Editeur : BookBaby, 2026

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County Highway is a magazine about America in the form of a 19th-century newspaper. It features reports on the political and spiritual crises that are gripping our country and their deeper cultural and historical sources; regular columns about agriculture, civil liberties, animals, herbal medicine, and living off the grid, mentally and physically; essays about literature and art; and an entire section devoted to music.

David Samuels is editor and co-founder of County Highway. He had a long career as a staff and contract writer for The New Yorker, Harper’s, The Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine, The Point, and other magazines, on subjects including dog tracks, music festivals, blimp pilots, serial impostors, jewel thieves, pigeon racing, and the art of bringing down large buildings with explosives. He also reported on wars in the Balkans and the Middle East, where he learned the importance of gun safety. He is currently restoring a gold 1985 Porsche 924 that he bought off a guy who found it in a barn. He is married to Alana Newhouse, County Highway’s Classifieds Editor.

Walter Kirn is a fiction writer, essayist, critic, and editor-at-large of County Highway. His novels include Up in the Air and Thumbsucker, both of which were made into major feature films. His essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Harper's, and countless other publications. His latest book is Blood Will Out, a memoir.

Anne Fadiman is an essayist and reporter. Her most recent book, The Wine Lover’s Daughter​, is a memoir about her father, wine, and the upsides and downsides of upward mobility. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, her account of the crosscultural conflicts between a Hmong family and the American medical system, won a National Book Critics Circle Award.

Ian Frazier writes essays, humor pieces, and books of travel, memoir, and human geography. He has won the Thurber Prize for American Humor twice, and on May 21, 2004, he won The Glenlivet Manhattan Cup for the Largest Bluefish Caught on a Fly. He lives in New Jersey.

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Éditeur
BookBaby
Date d'édition
2026
Langue
anglais
ISBN 13 
9798999146748
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