Say, Is This the U.S.A

by Erskine Caldwell, Margaret Bourke-White

Paperback edition.

Genres: Photography

Paperback

First published January 1, 1977

About the author

Erskine Preston Caldwell was an American author. His writings about poverty, racism and social problems in his native South won him critical acclaim, but they also made him controversial among fellow Southerners of the time who felt he was holding the region up to ridicule.
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Reviews

[David Ward · Rating 3 out of 5]

Say, Is This the USA by Erskine Caldwell amd Margaret Bourke-White (Duell, Sloan & Pearce 1941) (917.3). This is an exceptionally strange book of art deco folio-sized photos by the legendary photographer Margaret Bourke-White, who was author Erskine Caldwell's wife at the time. It documents a cross-country car trip they made; Caldwell wrote the text, and Bourke-White took the pictures. This was written just prior to the US entering World War II; the fear and trepidation of the inevitability of having to face Hitler's machine is evident throughout this volume. It represents a classic mid-Twentieth century posture of dissatisfaction with the then-current state of the world. My rating: 7/10, finished 7/7/16.