Steven Heller in the NY Times Book Review writes that the "book's design, a complex melange of typographic hierarchies...a remarkable display of deconstructive, post-structural, post-modern experimentation - or words that explode across the page... Miss America owes a distinct debt to Apollinaire's Il Pleut, Marinetti's Zang Tumb Tumb and McLuhan's Medium... Unfortunately, Miss A. really doesn't go as far...while the design screams and shouts...actually pretty timid." It is profusely illustrated. This a first edition, first printing. Chip Kidd designed this book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.