An entertainment journalist offers a humorous but ultimately positive take on American pop culture, showing how film, fashion, television, fashion, advertising, and sports attract people from all over the world to American values.
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In Why Do People Love America? Media critic Louis Chunovic delves into the worlds of American film, fashion, music, sport and advertising in an effort t to trace their path of international influence. Considering everything from Bill Gates to Bugsy Siegel, and Levis to Lauren, Chunovic shows how the universal appeal of these quintessentially American phenomena may well appear to be the result of clever marketing and fat-cat commerciality. But, upon further examination, he reveals American influence as not just a case of 'sale-on-demand', putting forward an altogether more personal reason as to why we keep going back for more.
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