Unauthorized America: A Travel Guide to the Places the Chamber of Commerce Won't Tell You About

by Vince Staten

Once upon a time, vacation meant packing the kids in the car and visiting a national monument or driving by the site of some historic battle. But the modern tourist family isn’t as interested in Old Geezer Geyser or Musty Monument. For the modern tourist a historic battle site is where Sean Penn decked a photographer. And a national park is where JFK parked and made out with Marilyn Monroe. Now comes a travel guide for students of modern history, tourists who are more interested in the site where Jimmy Swaggart fell from grace than where he was born again.
Unauthorized America is a hilarious travel book, a guide to the places people really want to see – Elvis’s drugstore, JFK’s love nest, Charles Manson’s boyhood home. It’s a humorous ride on America’s seamier side.

Genres: Travel

318 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1990