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Acknowledgements

I am grateful to my friend Ray Ryan and my literary agent Georges Borchardt, both of whom helped with admirable efficiency to ease this book into the world. I must also thank John Glusman and Tori Leventhal at W. W. Norton for their splendidly scrupulous editing of the manuscript, and two of the Americans I hold in captivity, Willa Murphy and Oliver Eagleton, for saving me from some embarrassing blunders. I would like to be able to thank the other two captives as well, but at present they are both illiterate.

About the Author

TERRY EAGLETON
was born in Salford, England, in 1943. He attended Trinity College, Cambridge, where he earned both an MA and a PhD. He is the author of more than forty books, including
Why Marx Was Right
and the seminal
Literary Theory: An Introduction
, as well as a novel, a film script, plays performed in London and Dublin, and a critically acclaimed memoir,
The Gatekeeper.
Eagleton has taught at Oxford, Cambridge, and the National University of Ireland, and most recently at the University of Notre Dame. He currently resides in Dublin with his wife and children.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Eagleton, Terry, 1943–

Across the pond : an Englishman’s view of America / Terry Eagleton.—First edition.

pages cm

ISBN 978-0-393-08898-4 (hardcover)

ISBN 978-0-393-24033-7 (e-book)

1. Popular culture—United States. 2. British—United States—Anecdotes.

3. Eagleton, Terry, 1943–—Travel—United States. 4. Popular culture—

Great Britain. 5. United States—Social life and customs. 6. Great Britain—

Social life and customs. 7. National characteristics, American. 8. National characteristics, British. 9. English language—Variation—United States.

10. English language—Variation—Great Britain. I. Title.

E169.Z83E24 2013

306.0973—dc23

2013000340

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