Genus Americanus: Hitting the Road in Search of America's Identity

A seventy—year—old Northwestern journalism professor, Loren Ghiglione, and two twenty—something Northwestern journalism students, Alyssa Karas and Dan Tham, climbed into a minivan and embarked on a three—month, twenty—eight state, 14,063—mile road trip in search of America’s identity. After interviewing 150 Americans about contemporary identity issues, they wrote this book, which is part oral history, part shoe—leather reporting, part search for America’s future, part memoir, and part trave...