Now in a completely updated and expanded edition, What's Up, America? A Foreigner's Guide to Understanding Americans takes international newcomers on a tour of

Identifies nine values on which America was built--including manliness, profit, individuality, and religious faith--arguing that these values are under attack b

What's Up America? tells you why Americans act the way they do. International visitors will find this book useful by having their real questions answered in sim

Articles and graphics describe economic conditions since the 1980s and their effect on the nation.

One of "our most insightful social observers"* cracks the great political mystery of our time: how conservatism, once a marker of class privilege, became the cr