{"product_id":"american-places-book-william-zinnser-9781589880344","title":"American Places","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This inspiring guide includes places everyone means to go to some day, all described with the usual clarity of the author of \u003ci\u003eOn Writing Well\u003c\/i\u003e.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"A fascinating take on 'the search for memory' and how certain places have come to symbolize deep American principles.\"--\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJoin William Zinsser as he visits sixteen of our nation's most treasured historic sites--unlearning cliched assumptions and rediscovering fundamental truths about America. \u003ci\u003eAmerican Places\u003c\/i\u003e--and the ideals that Zinsser discovers these places represent--will never go out of fashion.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Speaking across the centuries with stone and symbol, narrative and myth, America's iconic places remind us of our anchoring principles and best intentions. 'This is where we started and what we believed and who we hoped to become,' these places say. At least that's what they said to me.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Niagara Falls existed only in the attic of my mind where collective memory is stored: scraps of songs about honeymooning couples, vistas by painters who tried to get the plummeting waters to hold still, film clips of Marilyn Monroe running for her life in \u003ci\u003eNiagara\u003c\/i\u003e, odds and ends of lore about stuntmen who died going over the falls, and always, somewhere among the scraps, a boat called \u003ci\u003eMaid of the Mist\u003c\/i\u003e, which took tourists...where? Behind the falls? \u003ci\u003eUnder\u003c\/i\u003e the falls? Death hovered at the edge of the images in my attic, or at least danger. But I had never thought of going to see the place itself. That was for other people. Now I wanted to be one of those other people.\"--from \u003ci\u003eAmerican Places\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eAmerican Places\u003c\/i\u003e paints vivid word pictures that put you in those places and make you feel that you've been there, but it also encourages each of us to take our own trek through history.\"--\u003ci\u003eRiverside Press-Enterprise\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Zinsser's choices and descriptions are refreshing because of the obvious thought that went into the selections. It's also fun to read Zinsser's observations.\"--\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWilliam Zinsser\u003c\/b\u003e is a lifelong journalist and nonfiction writer--he began his career on the \u003ci\u003eNew York Herald Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e in 1946--and is also a teacher, best known for his book \u003ci\u003eOn Writing Well\u003c\/i\u003e, a companion held in affection by three generations of writers, reporters, editors, teachers, and students. His 17 other books range from memoir (\u003ci\u003eWriting Places\u003c\/i\u003e) to travel (\u003ci\u003eAmerican Places\u003c\/i\u003e), jazz (\u003ci\u003eMitchell \u0026amp; Ruff\u003c\/i\u003e), American popular song (\u003ci\u003eEasy to Remember\u003c\/i\u003e), baseball (\u003ci\u003eSpring Training\u003c\/i\u003e) and the craft of writing (\u003ci\u003eWriting to Learn\u003c\/i\u003e). During the 1970s he was at Yale University, where he was master of Branford College and taught the influential nonfiction workshop that would start many writers and editors on their careers. He has taught at the New School, in New York, his hometown, and at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49853061267729,"sku":"CIN158988034XG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51038397071633,"sku":"NIN9781589880344","price":0.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":52939892883729,"sku":"CIN158988034XA","price":0.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53195652137233,"sku":"GOR012092502","price":36.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/158988034X.jpg?v=1750861863","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/de-ch\/products\/american-places-buch-william-zinnser-9781589880344","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}