"Delightful. . . relentlessly, exuberantly informative. . . a potted history of the United States, presenting aspects of American life from cooking to swearing, from warring to shopping." - Washington Post Book World
"From slavery, immigration and Westward expansion to advertising, sex and shopping malls, he provides scads of fascinating, often little-known facts and anecdotes that, far from glutting his reader's appetites, should leave them hungry for more." - Wall Street Journal
"A terrific book, likely to make its readers chuckle if not guffaw. . . If more high schools used thisas their history text, the course might be one of the morepopular ones in school." - Denver Post
