“I could have been American; after all I was nearly born there. So I wanted to find out what it is that makes the United States of America so unique, do diverse, so very American.” The beauty. The grandeur. The extraordinary contradictions. But enough about Stephen. What of America, the thrillingly varied colossus of a country that Stephen went top explore? In his chariot of Englishness – a black London cab Stephan zig-zags across America. En route he discovers the South Side of Chicago with blues legend Buddy Guy, catches up with Morgan Freeman in Mississippi, strides around with Ted Turner on his Montana ranch, marches with Zulus in Mardi Gras in New Orleans, drums with the Sioux Nation in South Dakota, joins a Georgia family for Thanksgiving, "picks" with bluegrass hillbillies, and finds himself in a Tennessee garden full of dead bodies.