A recent unexpected celebrity endorsement is just the latest in a string of successes for Yale's Icons of America series, which presents brief, lively volumes on our nation's major cultural touchstones. Past works have covered the Empire State Building, Gone with the Wind, and Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech
For those unfamiliar with the Icons series, we've dug up a pair of YouTube clips highlighting how entertaining—and sometimes prescient—these books can be. The first features Josh Ozersky, author of The Hamburger, in an ABC Frontline piece on the booming business of the burger in the midst of the current recession. Watch as Ozersky and the anchor revel in the humble decadence of America's favorite sandwich:
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