Discovering America
Subtitle: travels in the land of guns, God, and corporate gurus
By: James Laxer.
Contributors: Laxer, James.
Publisher: New Press; Distributed by W.W. Norton
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
Subjects: Laxer, James -- Travel -- United States.; United States -- Description and travel.; United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-; United States -- Politics and government -- 1993-2001.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Rev. ed. of: Stalking the elephant. 2000.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction I; title: part one lethal games; title: 1 On theTrail of the Michigan Militia 14; title: 2 Smith &Wesson and Me 28; title: 3 The High-Risk Life of the Marlboro Man 40; title: 4 American Carnival 64; title: 5 Choice and Its Foes 73; title: 6 Death and God inTexas 89; title: part two Making It in America; title: 7 Old and NewWest 12; title: 8 Corporate Gurus and RevealedTruth 135; title: 9 Greed, Gluttony, God,; title: and the American Dream 148; title: 10 Beautiful Losers 162; title: 11 American Pyramid 171; title: part three Republic to fmpire; title: 12 Government of the People 202; title: 13 On the Hispanic Frontier 233; title: 14 America in the World 255; title: Epilogue:American Century 278; title: Notes 290; title: Acknowledgments 294; title: Index 295.