Everything You Didn't Need to Know About the USA

America's only self-declared emperor, the &quote;old soldier&quote; who wouldn't die, the greatest carpetbagger - these are just a few of the fanciful real-life characters profiled in this inexhaustible trivia book. The author covers a happily wide range of subjects, from &quote;the greatest slot machine cheat&quote; who defied odds of 230,000 to 1, to the comic confusion of &quote;US&quote; with &quote;Uncle Sam,&quote; to the &quote;American town names to give you the creepy crawlies&quote; like Black Gnat, Kentucky. Meticulously fact-checked, this book brings the minutiae of a culture and country into sharp focus. The perfect road-trip companion, Everything You Didn't Need to Know About the USA is crammed with weird and wacky facts about every state in the union.