From front flap: "The answer is Yes! -- this is the U.S.A. The teamwork of Margaret Bourke-White, one of America's greatest photographers, and her husband, Erskine Caldwell, America's finest regional writer, reaches new heights in this new book. They did a good job together on their first work in collaboration, You Have Seen Their Faces, and they repeated that star performance in their European picture-book, North of the Danube. Now they surpass themselves in Say, is this the U.S.A., creating a picture-and-story book which is neatly and wonderfully woven together, the work of two creative artists who have developed and mastered an original and brilliant pattern of book-making. The face of a nation has never before been recorded so richly as here, with humor and beauty and color, with discoveries of out-of-the-way regions of the country, and with an understanding of the basic American spirit...."