Out of print Footsteps: The New York Times (2017) What emerges is a portrait of the US in all its conflicted and complex glory. Here he asks them to articulate their version of the American Dream. Terkel was an American oral historian whose books feature an extraordinary range of so-called ordinary people. Fourth Estate £9.99 American Dreams: Lost and Found by Studs Terkel (1980) He writes of 101 unusual celebrity encounters that together form a daisy chain of 20th-century history: Kipling meets Twain, Twain meets Helen Keller, and so on. Vintage £9.99 One on One by Craig Brown, (2011)Ĭraig Brown is a stone-cold genius and I am endlessly recommending this book. It is gorgeously written with passages of breathtaking beauty filled with wisdom and pathos. This novel is about many things – politics, family, class – but above all it is about the dark side of 1960s’ idealism and the souring of the American Dream. Roth’s reputation has taken a battering but I am a huge fan, especially of the trilogy of novels, published in the 1990s, which revisit key moments in postwar American history. Sarfraz Manzoor’s latest book, They: What Muslims and Non-Muslims Get Wrong About Each Other is published by Wildfire at £20.
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