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The True and Twisted Mind of the American Man
Penguin
February 2007
On Sale: February 1, 2007
256 pages
ISBN: 1594201064
EAN: 9781594201066
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Non-Fiction
Heir to Jack Kerouac and Hunter S. Thompson, Pulitzer
Prize-winning reporter Charlie LeDuff scours the country,
tossing back whiskey with the seedy, the dreamy, and the
strange in search of the soul of the American male. No one knows life's underbelly better than New York Times
reporter Charlie LeDuff. Christened the "bibulous scribe of
the working class" by his peers, he's made a career
chronicling, with dead-on feel for character and idiom, the
gritty lives of the drifters, the forgotten, and the
strange-people washed up and washed out on alcohol, broken
dreams, lifetimes of hard living. Willing to follow his
subjects where no respectable white-collared man would dare
go, he is clearly-and admittedly-a writer "not for people
who have doormen, but for doormen." And while his wholly
original coverage of this beat has brought him acclaim as a
journalist, it has also made him something of a
working-class hero. Who better, then, to examine what it means to be a man in
modern-day America? US Guys: The True and Twisted Mind of
the American Man is LeDuff's equally intoxicated and
intoxicating journey across the country in search of the
heart and soul of today's American male. With characteristic
audacity, compassion, and humor, he takes part in a
Bacchanalian Burning Man festival in Nevada, clad in a
Mohawk and little else; trains with the sadhearted Russian
clown of a traveling circus; leads a cavalry charge down the
Little Bighorn River with war reenactors; joins a C-level
professional football team; infiltrates a West Oakland bike
gang that holds fight parties; travels with Appalachian
snake handlers and tent revivalists; and covers a cowboy
love story at a gay rodeo ("Not like the movie. Life is
never like the movies. Life is messy and complicated and
self-loathing and funny"). At each juncture LeDuff
faithfully records their religion and sins and racism, their
freaks and misfits, their search for the American dream, and
the sweetness they find in living it out, if only for a moment.
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