An Australian in America: First Impressions and Second Thoughts on the World's Strangest Nation - Softcover

David Dale spent two years in the USA as a foreign correspondent. He was trying to answer two questions: What kind of people are Americans? and How are they different from Australians? But he kept being distracted: judging the NY State Chili Cookoff; escaping from Mormons in Salt Lake City; hearing FBI tapes of the Mafia at play; and getting drunk with Jack Lemmon. As a result parts of this book are not entirely serious.