"Travels with Charley" by John Steinbeck

This was a pleasant enough read, and at times amusingly retro (attitudes towards alcohol and expectations of women.) The most riveting section for me was Steinbeck's description of negro issues in the south, including New Orleans, where a tiny black girl, and then a white parent with a child, had to be accompanied to school by the police, while white "cheerleaders" shouted very ugly things, to the pleasure of the crowd.