Very funny, and if you’re looking for it (and even if you aren’t) really smart. Funny? The Willoughby brothers and their poor father, among many, many anecdotes. Smart? Bryson ends his experience of the Cuban missile crisis with “I haven’t trusted grown-ups for a single moment since.” There, in a sentence, the 60’s explained.

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