Highlights of Bernard Newman's coast-to-coast tour of the United States including a meeting with President Kennedy on the day he returned from talking with Mr Krushchev in Vienna, and also a meeting with J. Edgar Hoover of the famed FBI. But he was solely concerned with the people in high places. If he met millionaires, he also met paupers - cowboys and Indians, Gangsters and G-men. And in the course of his wanderings he assumed many temporary roles: Cowboy, police officer, tub helmsman, newspaper editor and TV personality. He encountered the much publicised Freedom Riders and probed, first hand, the Negro problems of the Deep South.
This is a man's eye view of a bustling, thriving continent - informative, amusing, and as readable as a novel.