The paradise program;: Travels through Muzak, Hilton, Coca-Cola, Texaco, Walt Disney, and other world empires by Anthony Haden-Guest - 1973

US: William Morrow & Company, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. The emblem of the Walt Disney World, that ample terrain if the Florida scru blands, portrays the planet Earth with Mickey Mouse ears. A telling enough device, and I had thought of beginning with my account of that magic (and n ow entirely computerised) kingdom. But, no. It is a journal, and should begin at the beginning. Not quite at t he beginning perhaps because it began on the periphery, and with details. M arshal Tito's Diner's Club card. A Playboy centre-fold tacked up among the oleographs of Krishna in a Malaysian kampong. A girl in Leningrad, whose We stern collection included two volumes of the Reader's Digest Condensed Book s. A Paramount Chief in Sierra Leone, one of whose ceremonial robes anticip ated a couture motif of 1972, by featuring a design of Coca-Cola… Read More

William Morrow & Company, 1973. First edition. Hardcover. Good/fair. Hardback SIGNED by author with inscription, full line First edition, DJ has some small rips