Looking for America

Richard Rhodes

Published by Penguin, softcover


When Richard Rhodes left home and job several years ago to look for America, he chose to watch for "landscapes, patterns, technologies, beasts in the jungle, the masks of men." The territory he explored encompassed Indians, politicians, cocaine-sniffing, pornography, suburban values, and a host of other distinctly American issues and personalities. Yet at the end of this "writer's odyssey" in the heartland, Rhodes confronts "the real wilderness, the only one that has ever challenged us, the wilderness of our own brains."