Film critic Leonard Maltin just did a really terrific post about Appetite for America on his blog Movie Crazy, recommending it highly for summer travel reading.

He writes: “With … people thinking about vacation travel this summer, I can’t think of a better time to put in a plug for Stephen Fried’s wonderful book Appetite for America, which has just been released in paperback by Bantam. This amazing saga of an English-born entrepreneur who changed the face of the American West is one of those stories that’s larger than life, in some ways better than fiction.”

His post also includes an excerpt from one of his favorite parts of the book, the section about the making of The Harvey Girls movie with Judy Garland. Thanks, Leonard, for being such a passionate Harvey fan and Fred travel buff (I know he has visited El Tovar at the Grand Canyon and La Posada in Winslow.)

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