Hella nation

By Evan Wright

Subjects: Histoire, Reporters and reporting, Culture populaire, History, United states, social life and customs, Popular culture, Biography, American essays, Social life and customs, Manners and customs, Adventure and adventurers, Culture, Mœurs et coutumes, Popular culture, united states, Civilization

Description: Rolling Stone writer Wright offers 12 tales of outsiders, people more or less living off the grid in mainstream America. He profiles, for example, a member of Delta Company in Kandahar in southeastern Afghanistan dueling with the Taliban; a fun-loving regular at a dance hall; a committed local anarchist engaging in street theater at a global trade conference; a pastor of the Aryan Nation preaching against the evils of blacks and Jews; and two HIV-infected former porn stars.