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)

The Betty Crocker cookbook (1950)

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

Surviving the 80s

Epilogue.