Americanon: an unexpected U.S. history in thirteen bestselling books

The old farmer's almanac --

Webster's speller and dictionary (1783/1828) --

Benjamin Franklin's autobiography --

The McGuffey readers (1836) --

A handbook to American womanhood --

Etiquette in society, in business, in politics and at home --

How to win friends and influence people (1936) --

Betty Crocker's picture cook book (1950) --

Everything you always wanted to know about sex* (*but were afraid to ask) (1969) --

Surviving the eighties --

Epilogue.