Inside U.S.A.

John Gunther (1901–1970) was an American journalist and the author of many books, including the acclaimed Inside Asia, Inside Latin America, Inside Europe, Inside U.S.A., and Death Be Not Proud.

“When I was writing Master of the Senate, I had [Inside U.S.A.] on my desk next to my typewriter, and whenever I needed to check on someone or something, all I had to do was open it up. And the sense it conveys about America in the postwar 1940s! There’s just nothing like it!”—Robert Caro“[Gunther] was a reporter—probably the best America ever had. He came, he saw, he wrote.”—Robert Gottlieb, The New York Times “[V]ivid and acute. . . . an astonishing tour de force. It presents a shrewd, fast-moving, sparkling panorama of the United States at this historic moment of apparent triumph.”—Arthur Schlesinger Jr., The Atlantic “A Whitmanesque snapshot of the domestic political scene on the threshold of the postwar era. . . . Although later journalists, albeit only by team effort, eventually duplicated the scale of his canvas (that is, the entire U.S. political universe), none has ever matched the astuteness or piquancy of his characterizations of an entire generation of public figures.”—Mike Davis, in City of Quartz “The richest treasure-house of facts about America that has ever been published, and probably the most spirited and interesting.”—Sinclair Lewis