Inside America Author:Lewis Harris Harris, the well-known pollster, offers a wide-ranging examination of contemporary U.S. social, political, and economic attitudes. The book, which consists of some 50 short chapters with such snappy headings as "Weight: A Nation Out of Shape" and "Yuppies: Lately Spawned and Now Scorned," is loaded with statistical data deriv... more »ed (as might be expected) from opinion surveys, e.g., "10% of all adults confess that they first learned about sex from a sexual partner." While some of this information is arresting and occasionally illuminating, the overall effect is predictable and ephemeral. Recent similar titles are Oxford Analytica's America in Perspective (LJ 10/15/86) and Bryant Robey's The American People ( LJ 7/85).« less
Inside America is the inside story of who we really are and what we really think in every realmo of our lives -- and what our beliefs and behavior mean for the future.