US Guys: The True and Twisted Mind of the American Man

by Charlie LeDuff

Book Overview

From the New York Times bestselling author of Detroit: An American Autopsy "A fearless, clear eyed companion into parts of America that rarely see print."-- Entertainment Weekly Charlie LeDuff has made a career out of his extraordinary ability to capture the spirit of the people and places he profiles. US Guys is his odyssey in search of the truth behind the American man, from a jaded homicide detective in Detroit to a two-bit jockey at a racetrack...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0143113062
• ISBN13: 9780143113065
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.4"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

fun book

This, for me, is a page-turner and i recommend it to any American MAN. it's laugh-out-loud funny, shocking, and utterly depressing all at the same time...

brillant (of course)

I caught Charlie's interview on the "Colbert Report" and just had to go out and buy his book. As it turns out, I knew Charlie from Ann Arbor, and he's at least as brilliant now as he was then. Bravo.

Versatile

Whether blue collar, white collar; whether a pragmatist or philosopher, this book will give you something to talk about. No matter what type of crowd I'm around, a beer hockey league or a wine and cheese party, I can bring up this book as a conversation piece. That rarely, if ever, happens with a book. Worth the read.

grin and grimace

LeDuff is a brilliant writer. He takes his film crew to the dark underside of the American Male Experience. It's not pretty but his observations are by turns shocking, astonishing, revolting, inspiring, stupefying, and often, very amusing. (*note-sense of humor on part of reader is most helpful.) He exposes the empty hype of the Burning Man Festival in Nevada. He dons the gonzo biker persona to rumble with the Rats. He annoys a former junkie turned evangelist. He gets pounded into the ground as a rodeo bull rider, arena football player, and circus clown cum trapeze artist. All along the dangerous road he maintains his tough guy pose except when he's weeping. LeDuff has all the tools. This book will blow your mind.