America Day by Day

America Day by Day

Author	Simone de Beauvoir
Publication date	1948

America Day by Day is a 1948 book by Simone de Beauvoir chronicling her trip by road across the United States of America over four months in 1947. ^{[1] [2]} It was published in French in 1948 with an English translation in 1953. A new translation in English by Carol Cosman with a foreword by Douglas Brinkley was published in 1999 by the University of California Press. ^[1]

The book grew from the essay "An Existentialist Looks at Americans", published in The New York Times Magazine in 1947. ^[3]

References

1. America Day by Day. University of California Press. January 1999. ISBN   978-0-520-21067-7. Archived from the original on 16 May 2023. Retrieved 4 August 2023.
2. Simons, Margaret A. (2001-02-07). Beauvoir and The Second Sex. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. ISBN   978-0-7425-7127-3.
3. Cotkin, George (2003). Existential America. JHU Press. ISBN   978-0-8018-8200-5.