Description
One hundred of America's favorite writers re-evaluate the overpraised and applaud the unappreciated in this fun and impossible-to-put-down collection of highly opinionated essays.
What began as one of American Heritage's most popular annual features is collected now in this beautifully illustrated, endlessly entertaining book. One hundred inspired, irreverent, illuminating pieces take a fresh look at the people, places and things we take for great-and for granted. Dozens of America's most celebrated writers muse on the subjects they know best: Liz Smith on the Most Overrated and Underrated Love Affairs; Art Spiegelman on Comic Strips; Lawrence Block on Fictional Private Eyes, and Christopher Buckley on the most Overrated and Underrated Kennedys, to name just a few. Their wizened analysis, leavened with liberal dollops of humor, is sure to inspire thought and lively conversation, whether you agree or disagree, for example, that Barbara Streisand is the most overrated singer or that the peanut butter-and-jelly sandwich is the most underrated American dish.
Author: Editors of American Heritage Magazine
Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
Published: 04/01/2001
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.74lbs
Size: 9.25h x 5.63w x 0.70d
ISBN13: 9781579121631
ISBN10: 1579121632
BISAC Categories:
- Humor | Form | Essays
- Social Science | Popular Culture
- Social Science | Customs & Traditions