The Atlantic Monthly, Phoebe-Lou Adams
Professor Mergen uses snow and responses to it as an illustration of both the practical and the emotional development of American character. Snow has changed from a moral resource encouraging endurance and ingenuity to a public nuisance to an ecological and economic resource. Poets have made it a metaphor for states ranging from euphoria to despair. This intelligent study is not ivory-tower theorizing. It deals firmly with street cleaning, the growth of the ski industry, water usage, winter carnivals, and even fashions in the making of snow forts and snowmen. It does all this well.
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The Los Angeles Times Sunday Book Review, David Craig
Snow in America is likely to remain unsurpassed as a handbook for novelists wanting to set their stories in North America between November and March.
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- The White Death: Tragedy and Heroism in an Avalanche Zone by Mckay Jenkins on page 14, and Back Matter
- A Time to Every Purpose: The Four Seasons in American Culture by Michael Kammen in Back Matter
- Washington Weather by Kevin Ambrose on page 109
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