The Average American: The Extraordinary Search for the Nation"s Most Ordinary Citizen

Цена 38.58 USD

EAN/UPC/ISBN Code 9781586482701

Брэнд Public Affairs Pr

Автор

Страниц 257

Год выпуска 2005

An intrepid author sets himself a remarkable task: to find the most perfectly average person in the nation John Q Public. Plain Jane. The Average Joe. We think we know the type, but have we ever actually met the person? To be the perfectly average American is harder than it might seem: You must live within three miles of a McDonald"s, and two miles of a public park; you must be better off financially than your parents, but earn no more than $75,000 a year; you must believe in God and the literal truth of the Bible, yet hold some views that traditional churches have deemed sacrilegious. Equipped with his trusty Mr. Q, a notebook that he has compiled with over 1,000 facts about the Average American, Kevin O"Keefe has completed a tour of America in search of the sublimely ordinary, the man and woman who each represent most definitively all that is average in our country. In his travels from New York to Nevada, Pennsylvania to Hawaii, Kansas to Connecticut and beyond, O"Keefe...