In Have a Nice Day the BBC’s North America Editor, Justin Webb, travels beyond the lazy clichés that most Europeans like to think of America & plunges into what makes this paradoxical country work. Webb is keen to uncover the real America & stay clear of recent controversies such as the presidency of George W Bush & the Iraq way, preferring to dwell instead on the question of just what makes America so successful. Although Webb still explores the issues that many Europeans tend to sneer at, such as guns, racial divisions & the influence of the Christian right, this book helps put the rough edges of American life into both geographical & intellectual context. With the election of Barack Obama in the November 2008 election, Webb’s work comes at an apposite time, as the country embarks on a completely new direction as the world watches on. This is exactly the time, Webb is claiming, that we should re-evaluate the very essence of the USA, at why Americans think as they do & indeed why they might actually have a point.