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Monster trucks & hair-in-a-can : who says America doesn't make anything anymore?
- Title
- Monster trucks & hair-in-a-can : who says America doesn't make anything anymore? / Bill Geist.
- Author
- Geist, William.
- Publication
- New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, [1994], ©1994.
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Details
- Description
- 223 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- From the Emmy Award-winning CBS correspondent and best-selling author of Little League Confidential comes a hilarious look at modern American entrepreneurship. For many years, Bill Geist has been exploring the quirks and glories of this country, and he's here to tell you: America is still the land of opportunity.
- That's right! Where else could Bob Chandler make a fortune by inventing that huge-wheeled, car-crushing, eardrum-blasting behemoth of the arena - the monster truck? Where else could Carlotta Robinson become queen of the multimillion-dollar sport of. . . pig racing ("People eat it up")?
- Where else would you find Hardy Warren, dean of the dog-eat-dog California traffic school industry; Jim Reid, the Used Golf Ball King of Florida (and Therefore the World); bogologist Randy Spraggins; tourism virtuoso Gary Calvert; Hal Schlenger, inventor of the Fish Channel ("You have to understand the entertainment value of fish"); and of course, the legendary Ron Popeil, he of the Pocket Fisherman, Veg-O-Matic, and hair-in-a-can? Only here.
- . These are entrepreneurial pioneers all, making their way in postindustrial America with ingenuity, individuality, and often just that dash of courage/craziness necessary for those who must step outside the corporate structure and do what they want to do. With wit and warmth, in a book of pure delight, Bill Geist proves that the American dream is alive and well and just a tad warped. Who says America doesn't make anything anymore?
- Alternative Title
- Monster trucks and hair-in-a-can.
- Subjects
- Contents
- Introduction: Careers for the 21st Century -- King of the Infomercials -- All Fish All the Time -- Traffic School -- Monster Trucks -- Geocentrism -- The Used Golf Ball King of Florida (and therefore the world) -- Shoji -- Bassin' -- Queen of the Pig Races -- Blam! -- Virtual Vision -- Talk -- Cowabunga! -- Mary Hart's Legs -- Phenomenails -- American Gladiators -- Lest We Forget.
- ISBN
- 0399138838 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 94028046
- OCLC
- 30895298
- ocm30895298
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries