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Product Description
John Humphrys
"If you want to know what makes Americans tick, read this book. Webb knows America - and it shows."

The Times
"Not since Charles Wheeler has the BBC had as fine an American correspondent. His perceptive reporting has been a joy."

Simon Calder, Travel Editor, The Independent
"With his forensic examination of America, and more importantly, of Americans, Justin Webb represents 21st-century proof that no-one understands the world so adroitly as the Englishman abroad."

Review
"... the literary equivalent of cracking open a six pack of Budweiser and arguing late into the night..."

Book Description
Forget George Bush. Put to one side the Iraq war. Avert your eyes from the overweight inhabitants of Kansas. This book is about the real America: a counterblast to the lazy anti-Americanism that infects European thinking, an effort to answer the simple question, "Why is America so successful?" without sneering at that success of claiming that it is illegitimate or artificial.
Have a Nice Day does not shy away from the guns, the racial divisions or the crazy preachers. But it puts the rough edges of American life in context - geographical and intellectual. With the election of a new president in November 2008, America is making its next big move. This is exactly the right time, Justin Webb claims, for the world to take a new look at the essence of the USA, at why Americans think as they do, and why they might just have a point.

From the Publisher
"If you love America and this love has dared not speak its name in recent years, my book is intended to give you ammunition with which to do battle on behalf of the Yanks. But if you hate America, or think that you might, or have a friend who does, please at least give me a chance to change your mind."

With those words the BBC North America Editor Justin Webb asks us to reconsider our view of the United States.

He begins in Bath where he was brought up and where his late mother Gloria Webb was a prominent member of the Religious Society of Friends, the Quakers. Justin's mother was politically active and used to take him on protests with her friends. He writes,

"They were good people, thoughtful and peaceful. But as I grew older I began to notice something rather odd about their pet causes. Their heartfelt protests against nuclear weapons, for instance, concentrated on American warheads, not the Soviet missiles in those days pointed directly at us. When they campaigned against war, it was American led war they abhorred. Against executions? In Texas of course ...... In other words the anti-American mindset was alive and well long before the current president stoked its engine. Why? Where does anti-Americanism come from? Is it about what America does or what America is? And if it is the latter, is the dislike based on real knowledge, or on misunderstanding?"

To find out, Justin takes us on a journey which begins in Bath but leads to some of the wellsprings of anti-Americanism, ancient and modern: France Egypt and Venezuela. We turn then to America; to the creationist museum in Kentucky, to the mountains of West Virginia, to the largely Latino city of San Antonio in Texas, to the living rooms of the gentle political junkies of Iowa, and to the vexed and hugely significant question, "who is The (modern) Virginian."

The result is a friendly argument with anti-Americanism and an affectionate though critical portrait of a nation that demands of the world, Have a Nice Day!

About the Author
Justin Webb is the BBC's North America Editor and an occasional presenter of the Today Programme on Radio Four. He has spent the last six years shaping and leading the BBC's coverage of the US and its neighbours. He lives in Washington DC with his wife Sarah and their children Martha, Sam and Clara.

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