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Made in America
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Made in America (1995) (edit title/settings)

An Informal History of the English Language in the United States

by Bill Bryson (Author) (edit contributors)

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Bill Bryson, who gave glorious voice to The Mother Tongue, now celebrates her magnificent offspring in the book that reveals once and for all how a dusty western hamlet with neither woods nor holly came to be known as Hollywood...and exactly why Mr.Yankee Doodle call his befeathered cap... read more

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The image of the spiritual founding of America that generations of Americans have grown up with was created, oddly enough, by a poet of limited talents (to put it in the most magnanimous possible way) who lived two centuries after the event in a country three thousand miles away.

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  1. Bill Bryson (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: William Morrow & Co
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1995
ISBN: 068810312X
Page Count: 417

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