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This wonderful collection of two bestselling works, AMERICAN BEAT and CHEESE- BURGERS, is a delicious and satisfying gathering of the best of Bob Greene the newspaper and magazine columns that have made him one of the most talked-about journalists in America today. Full of stories that touch a nerve, touch the heart, and ring with a sense of truth and immediacy, each says something about life in the United States, for his beat is America."I like to think of my stories as snapshots of life in America...." Greene writes, "snapshots taken as I wander around the country seeing what turns up. My guiding principle is that if something interests me viscerally as a person, not necessarily a 'jour- nalist then I'll try to write about it. The nicest compliment I ever get is that my stories sound not so much like someone who is sitting down at a type- writer with something he has been assigned, but like someone who is calling his best friend at the end of the day and saying. You'll never guess what I saw today... You'll never guess who I met today."Whether he is writing about a chance reunion of high-school friends or recounting a wide-ranging conversation with Richard Nixon; having cocktails with Prince Charles or paying tribute to his mother, interviewing Meryl Streep or a fifty-five-year-old man who is struggling to learn to read, Greene is always a storyteller-gritty, poignant, amusing-and this collection of his stories will be a treasure for his millions of fans.
ISBN:9780883658185
