Review of Bill Bryson The Complete Notes: Notes from a Small Island / Notes from a Big Country

Bryson's comparisons between the megalith that was birthed by the imperialith is interesting. Perhaps paucity drove the British idiosyncracy of restraint (hiding innate greed) whereas plenitude drove the US core value of naked greed. Either way, this is a ride - like it or not - through the history of a once imperialistic monster into the adolescence of the megalomaniacal behemoth it spawned. Interesting, disturbing and sobering. Next: Germany, Russia, and now China. Watch, and learn America.