Bob Greene's America Author:Bob Greene This wonderful collection of two bestselling works, AMERICAN BEAT and CHEESEBURGERS, is a delicious and satisfying gathering of the best of Bob Greene -- the newspaper and magazine columns that have made him one of the most talked about journalists in America today. Full of stories that t... more »ouch a nerve, touch the heart, and ring with a sense of truth and immediacy, each says something about life in the United States, for his beat is America.
Whether he is writing about a chance reunion of high school friends or recounting a wide-ranging conversation with Richard Nixon; having cocktails with Prince Charles or paying tribute to his mother; interviewing Meryl Streep or a fifty-five-year-old man who is struggling to learn to read, Greene is always a storyteller -- gritty, poignant, amusing -- and this collection of his stories will be a treasure for his millions of fans.« less