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Pop Culture versus Real America

Pop Culture versus Real America

The book contrasts images of American life promulgated by television, cinema, and other media with profiles of real Americans engaged in similar walks of life.

The First Look edition includes the book’s introduction, penned by the New Yorker and Weekly Standard contributor Andrew Ferguson, and chapters contrasting Baywatch with real California lifeguards and Grey’s Anatomy with a female African-American physician in New Haven, Connecticut. Look for the entire book, which will feature cowboys and police chiefs, a wind farmer, an American teen – the  daughter of Guatemalan immigrants and no “Gossip Girl” – and many others.

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