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INSIDE U.S.A. (979 pp.)-John Gunther-Harper...
Sooner or later, it was bound to happen: Journalist John Gunther, who has made a tidy fortune exploring the "insides" of Europe, Asia and Latin America, would some day try to get "inside" the U.S. He has, at last-about as far inside as he ever gets. His conclusion (in a phrase he picked up from Robert E. Sherwood): the U.S. is "lousy with greatness...
...publishers, who are using all the paper they can find to print it (they expect Inside U.S.A. to be the biggest-selling $5 book ever published), and $40,000 to promote it, Gunther's book is the event of the year. It is unlikely to outlast the year. Like a large proportion of bestsellers, this is journalism between boards. It will shove neither Bryce's American Commonwealth nor the WPA State Guides off the shelf; it is neither as penetrating as the one, nor as useful as the other...
...John Gunther, the most successful living practitioner of his kind of journalism (a mixture of Burton Holmes, Drew Pearson, Walter Winchell and the World Almanac) is highly readable. His writing is brisk and breezy. It is also glib, superficial, exaggerated, full of impressions passing as insights and facts palmed off as truths. This is probably the best of his books, certainly the best since Inside Europe, which had some excellent eyewitness reporting of Austria in the turbulent days of Dollfuss...
...Gunther K. Rosinus '49; Kirkland House; Treasurer '49 Class Committee; Harvard Forum; Captain, Jayvee basketball; House baseball; P.B.H.; scholarship...