Gunther, John — Inside U.S. A.

New York / London, Harper & Brothers, 1947. Hardcover. black boards w/ blind-stamped emblem w/ red & gold spine printing. illustrated pastedowns & endpapers. 979 pgs w/ select bw illustrations. Tanning to page edges. Pages inspected and appear clean, but, may have instances of marginalia, notations, etc. "John Gunther’s Inside series were among the most popular books of reportage of the 1930s and 1940s. For Inside U.S.A. his magnum opus, Gunther set out from California and visited every state in the country, offering frank, lucid, and humorous observations along the way in what legendary publisher Robert Gottlieb, writing in the New York Times, calls Gunther’s “fluent, personal, casual, snappy” voice. Gunther’s insights on race, labor, the impact of massive New Deal public works projects, rural life, urbanization, and much more yield fascinating insight into life in a postwar America that had vaulted into the status of the world’s preeminent superpower."--Amazon. Good+ (light scratches & wear to boards; shelf-wear to edges. light rubbing to corners w/ some bumping & curling. spine ends crinkled & rubbed. shelf-wear to lower textblock edge.) .