Book description
What do you do if you want to get underneath the skin of a country,
to understand its people and feel its heartbeat? You can follow the
rest of the tourists, or you can take the advice of Watergate reporter
Bob Woodward's source,  Deep Throat', and  follow the money.'
Starting out in Lebanon, Kansas Â- the geographical centre of America
Â- journalist Steve Boggan did just that by setting free a
ten-dollar-bill and accompanying it on an epic journey for thirty days
and thirty nights through six states across 3,000 miles armed only
with a sense of humour and a small, and increasingly grubby, set of
clothes. As he cuts crops with farmers in Kansas, pursues a repo-woman
from Colorado, gets wasted with a blues band in Arkansas and hangs out
at a quarterback's mansion in St Louis, Boggan enters the lives of
ordinary people as they receive Â- and pass on Â- the bill. What
emerges is a chaotic, affectionate and funny portrait of a modern-day
America that tourists rarely see. Follow the Money will be 'Book of
the Week' on BBC Radio 4 in July 2012.
