Download or read book How to Talk American written by Jim Crotty and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1997 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the popular "How to Talk" feature in the alternative travel magazine "Monk", this savvy and often hilarious, region-by-region guide to the way Americans talk also provides a dead-on (and sometimes too strange) indication of how we think, how we behave, and what we hold dear. 100+ photos, drawings & maps.