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A 50 State Road Trip
NAL
June 2011
On Sale: June 7, 2011
224 pages
ISBN: 0451235398
EAN: 9780451235398
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
The official companion book to the brand new HBO(r)
documentary In the HBO(r) documentary Citizen
U.S.A., acclaimed filmmaker Alexandra Pelosi sets out on
a road trip across America to attend naturalization
ceremonies in all fifty states to meet brand-new citizens
and find out why they chose America as their home. What she
discovers is that America welcomes them all-the disabled,
the cancer patients, homosexuals, Obama- haters, Christian
missionaries, Muslim imams, Jewish rabbis, Buddhist monks,
scientists with Ph.D.s (trying to find the cure for all the
diseases that are plaguing us), tech giants in Silicon
Valley, movie directors, race car drivers, and even a
wrestler with his own action figure! Whether these
new Americans arrived here through online dating, adoption,
political asylum, student and work visas, or by swimming the
Rio Grande River (and remained long enough to be granted
amnesty) they all came here to live the "American Dream."
And even though they are no longer visitors, our newest
citizens still look at America with an outsider's
perspective; they hold up a mirror to show us how we look as
a nation-and how much we take for granted. At a time when
unemployment is at an all-time high, America's manufacturing
base is eroding, the federal deficit is exploding, and the
poverty rate is at seventeen percent, immigrants from every
other country on earth still flock here because no matter
how bad it gets here, it's still a heck of a lot better than
most other places on earth.
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