Travel guides to the United States

Navigating ourselves

From “Every Building on the Sunset Strip,” Ed Ruscha, 1966

I seek out travel guides written about the United States. Americans are like this, like that, not like this. The first one I saw, I think, years ago, was a Lonely Planet guide in a student pub at Nuffield College, in Oxford, England. Travelers were to know that Americans were often touchy on poli…