Introduction

The election has set off a spasm of national soul searching, just who are we after all? I'm john bewin. It's seen on radio a show that asks, what's it really like out there and leaves the studio to find out. Many times before, artists and thinkers and journalists have found reason to probe the nation's character. The same country it was six years ago, the nation that had chosen its first black president and would soon re elect him bout the us. In 20 ten i flew around the country and spent time with artists in a half dozen places, from new york to north dakota to california.