State by State : A Panoramic Portrait of America
by Weiland, MattEdition: Reprint
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Summary
From the bestselling editors of "The Thinking Fan's Guide to the World Cup" comes an American road trip in book form: original writing on all 50 states by 50 of America's finest novelists, journalists, and essayists.
Author Biography
Matt Weiland has worked on Granta, The Paris Review, and The Baffler, as well as a documentary unit at NPR. He is the co-editor, with Sean Wilsey of The Thinking Fan's Guide to the World Cup and, with Thomas Frank, of Commodity Your Dissent. Sean Wilsey is the author of a memoir, Oh the Glory of It, All, and the editor-at-larger for McSweeney's quarterly. He is at work on a book about NASA.
Table of Contents
| Preface | p. xi |
| Introduction | p. xix |
| Alabama | p. 3 |
| Alaska | p. 15 |
| Arizona | p. 26 |
| Arkansas | p. 33 |
| California | p. 42 |
| Colorado | p. 56 |
| Connecticut | p. 66 |
| Delaware | p. 77 |
| Florida | p. 90 |
| Georgia | p. 103 |
| Hawaii | p. 111 |
| Idaho | p. 120 |
| Illinois | p. 129 |
| Indiana | p. 141 |
| Iowa | p. 154 |
| Kansas | p. 167 |
| Kentucky | p. 173 |
| Louisiana | p. 182 |
| Maine | p. 194 |
| Maryland | p. 203 |
| Massachusetts | p. 209 |
| Michigan | p. 223 |
| Minnesota | p. 232 |
| Mississippi | p. 241 |
| Missouri | p. 248 |
| Montana | p. 260 |
| Nebraska | p. 265 |
| Nevada | p. 274 |
| New Hampshire | p. 287 |
| New Jersey | p. 300 |
| New Mexico | p. 308 |
| New York | p. 320 |
| North Carolina | p. 339 |
| North Dakota | p. 348 |
| Ohio | p. 357 |
| Oklahoma | p. 363 |
| Oregon | p. 368 |
| Pennsylvania | p. 377 |
| Rhode Island | p. 391 |
| South Carolina | p. 402 |
| South Dakota | p. 415 |
| Tennessee | p. 428 |
| Texas | p. 435 |
| Utah | p. 447 |
| Vermont | p. 460 |
| Virginia | p. 469 |
| Washington | p. 479 |
| West Virginia | p. 487 |
| Wisconsin | p. 501 |
| Wyoming | p. 514 |
| Afterword: Washington, D.C.- A Conversation | p. 525 |
| The 50 States in Numbers | p. 533 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 565 |
| About the Contributors | p. 566 |
| About the Editors | p. 573 |
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