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Author Quinn, Colin, 1959- author.

Title Overstated : a coast-to-coast roast of the 50 states / Colin Quinn.

Publication Info. New York : St. Martin's Press, 2020.
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Edition First Edition.
Description x, 243 pages ; 25 cm
Contents Introduction -- New England -- Mid-Atlantic -- The South -- The Midwest -- The Southwest -- The West -- The Pacific Coast -- The country's foster children -- The American Rome -- Inventory or autopsy.
Summary The United States is in a fifty-states-wide couples' counseling session, thinking about filing for divorce. Can a nation composed of states that are so different possibly hang together? Quinn calls us out state-by-state, and identifies the hypocrisies inherent in what we claim to believe and what we actually do. Within a framework of big-picture thinking about systems of government he skewers us all: red, blue, and purple-- while maintaining the same blend of optimism and practicality that sparked the U.S. into being. -- adapted from jacket
Subject United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Humor.
United States -- History -- Humor.
Manners and customs (OCoLC)fst01007815
United States (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Humor.
History (OCoLC)fst01411628
Humor (OCoLC)fst01423696
Humor.
Cover Title Over stated : a coast-to-coast roast of the 50 states
Added Title Overstated : a coast-to-coast roast of the fifty states
Over stated : a coast-to-coast roast of the fifty states
ISBN 9781250268440 (hardcover)
1250268443 (hardcover)
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