{"product_id":"250-great-american-things-a-semi-quincentennial-celebration-paperback","title":"250 Great American Things: A Semi-Quincentennial Celebration - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCounty Highway\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the spirit of our founding father, Mark Twain, \u003ci\u003eCounty Highway \u003c\/i\u003eis honoring the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence by gathering a raft of some of America's finest essayists, humorists, fiction writers, and other prose stylists and wise-asses to remind us of what makes America great. The answers, some deadpan, and others only mildly tongue-in-cheek, include lawn-mowers, gas grills, Hanna-Barbera cartoons, cowboy boots, catcher's mitts, light-bulbs, hairspray, chicken-wire fencing, and 242 other entries in what is sure to be the most amusing and least-tiresome tribute to a nation that occasionally commemorates the past by staging gaudy parades or engaging in bouts of solemn introspection but thrives most of the time on forgetting its history and making new stuff. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGiven the bitter political divisions that render Americans capable of agreeing on anything of importance, we don't claim to list the \"greatest\" American things, nor do we rank them in any order besides the alphabetical. Rather, the greatness of each entry will speak for itself, and for the nation that we have built together -- by solving problems that needed solving, through flashes of off-kilter genius and intuition, and by kidding around.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCounty Highway\u003c\/i\u003e is commemorating the 250 American things we find to be especially great, with contributions from David Samuels, Walter Kirn, Amanda Fortini, and\u003ci\u003e County Highway\u003c\/i\u003e's stable of big-name writers, editors, essayists, humorists, novelists, and reporters. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 30, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48383540363513,"sku":"9798999146748","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/kHq4KWTt5S9798999146748.webp?v=1778444243","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/250-great-american-things-a-semi-quincentennial-celebration-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}