TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mack,Doug
TI  - The Not-Quite States of America: dispatches from the territories and other far-flung outposts of the USA 
SN  - 9780393247602
PY  - 2017///
CY  - New York
PB  - W.W. Norton & Company
KW  - Mack, Doug
KW  - United States
KW  - Territories and possessions
KW  - History
KW  - Insular possessions
KW  - Description and travel
KW  - Travel writing
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-287) and index; A very brief note on the territories and their various designations -- The empire's new clothes: the Virgin Islands of the United States -- Foreign in a domestic sense: American Samoa -- Offshoring the American experience: Guam -- Land of opportunity: the Northern Mariana Islands -- Be true to your home: Puerto Rico -- The future of empire
N2  - Traces the author's explorations of U.S. territories including American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Northern Mariana Islands to juxtapose their blends of culture against the expansionist views of the Founding Fathers
ER  -