The American Way of Wedding

The Brian Lehrer Show | Mar 31, 2010
In New Yorker staff writer Rebecca Mead’s new book, One Perfect Day: The Selling of the American Wedding (Penguin, 2007), she asks what American weddings say about the American identity.

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Rebecca Mead will be reading from One Perfect Day at the Lincoln Center Barnes & Noble tonight at 7:30. She’ll be at the Barnes & Noble in Park Slope, Brooklyn on Thursday at 7:00.

One Perfect Day is available for purchase at Amazon.com.

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