Every Wrong Direction: An Emigré's Memoir

Every Wrong Direction recreates and dissects the bitter education of Dan Burt, an American émigré who never found a home in America. It begins in the row homes of Jewish immigrants and working—class Italians on the mean streets of 1950s South Philadelphia. Every Wrong Direction follows the author from the rough, working—class childhood that groomed him to be a butcher or charter boat captain, through America, Britain and Saudi Arabia as student, lawyer, spy, culture warrior, and expatriate,...