I would like to signal you a beautiful book of Joe Severgnini, not in America, but on the Americans. It tells with usual ironic and prickly style the manias of the people American sights with the eyes of an Italian that, for job, he has lived for one year to Washington DC. Who has had already the fortune to have visited the United States it won't be able whether to recognize the manias and the differences that he has met, who has not been yet can learn as things that in any manual are not found for tourists.

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Stunned by the bombardment of news coming from USA, in front of America "normal" we totally find us unprepared. And' true that goes crazy for the ice, that pretends the optional tips, that it practises the religion of I discount him/it and the cult of the armchairs reclinabili? How "works" United States? An Italian in America intends to answer to these questions. And' the one year-old diary to Georgetown, the old district of Washington. Does Beppe Severgnini drive the reader through the first doubts (because don't lower the conditioned air?) and the first answers (because he likes so), describing the a lot of surprises of the daily life: the skirmishes with a hydraulic named Marx; the terrible power of the telephones and children, true masters of the country; the bankruptcy excursions in the electronic shopping and the battles for (not) to get a credit card. An Italian in America is not intelligent and amusing only. And' also reassuring. Severgnini, in fact, an expert of the United States is not considered, and he writes for all the not-experts. "This book - they are first words - it is the fruit of a long inexperience."