USA Inside/Outside

We paired the classic Jack Kerouac ‘On the Road’ with an Australian outsider’s perspective, ‘American Journeys’ by Don Watson – Paul Keating’s speech writer from back in the day.  If you like Watson’s writing, you can also pick up his ‘Weasel Words: Cliches, Cant & Jargon’ and his ‘Death Sentence: The decay of public language’.  We’ve also got Alistair Cooke’s ‘American Journey’ for a bit of a look back by an outsider/insider who spent 60 years trying to explain the US to radio listeners in Britain and Australia.  G*d knows what he’d make of what it’s become.