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<\/a>This book<\/a> is the follow-up to Mead’s How to Succeed in Business Without Trying<\/em>. You might have heard that title because it was turned into a Broadway show that was recently revived.<\/p>\nBased on that success, Mead was able to move to Europe. In this book, he talks about moving to post-war England for business and plays upon the differences between America and England. It’s much more amusing if you’re old enough to get mid-century jokes and concerns. I’m not sure you could just watch Mad Men<\/em> and get it.<\/p>\n It’s an amusing book, but it’s from another time. Here’s a gag in the section about England’s quaint socialized medicine:<\/p>\n However, it is only fair to warn you that in England you will be living under socialized medicine, and every American knows how dangerous that can be.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Forty years later, every American is going to learn<\/em> how dangerous that will be, and we won’t have to travel abroad to get it.<\/p>\n Here’s a gag that’s even funnier forty years later:<\/p>\n The “British language” you have been hearing on televsion in the States is not really spoken anywhere. This is a special tongue known as Mid-Atlantic, designed to “sound British” to Americans, and still be understood. The British can understand it, too. They think it is a kind of funny American, and wonder why Robin Hood should talk like a Yank.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Given Kevin Costner’s turn as Robin Hood, there are many Americans who think it’s funny that Robin Hood sounded American.<\/p>\n At any rate, it’s an amusing book. If you’re old enough, I suppose.<\/p>\n