Looking for America on the New Jersey Turnpike, Second Edition
Autor Angus Kress Gillespie, Michael Aaron Rocklanden Limba Engleză Paperback – 12 sep 2024 – vârsta ani
A twelve-lane behemoth cutting through the least scenic parts of the Garden State, the New Jersey Turnpike may lack the romantic allure of highways like Route 66, but it might just be a more accurate symbol of American life, representing the nation at both its best and its worst.
When Angus Gillespie and Michael Rockland wrote Looking for America on the New Jersey Turnpike in 1989, they simply wanted to express their fascination with a road that many commuters regarded with annoyance or indifference. Little did they expect that it would be hailed as a classic, listed by the state library alongside works by Whitman and Fitzgerald as one of the ten best books ever written about New Jersey.
When Angus Gillespie and Michael Rockland wrote Looking for America on the New Jersey Turnpike in 1989, they simply wanted to express their fascination with a road that many commuters regarded with annoyance or indifference. Little did they expect that it would be hailed as a classic, listed by the state library alongside works by Whitman and Fitzgerald as one of the ten best books ever written about New Jersey.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781978835986
ISBN-10: 1978835981
Pagini: 312
Ilustrații: 11 color and 12 B-W images
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Ediția:Nouă
Editura: Rutgers University Press
Colecția Rutgers University Press
ISBN-10: 1978835981
Pagini: 312
Ilustrații: 11 color and 12 B-W images
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Ediția:Nouă
Editura: Rutgers University Press
Colecția Rutgers University Press
Notă biografică
ANGUS KRESS GILLESPIE is a professor of American Studies at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, where he teaches courses in historical and contemporary folklore. A Fulbright professor and a New York Times best-selling author, he has written on subjects ranging from skyscrapers to superhighways.
MICHAEL AARON ROCKLAND is a Professor Emeritus of American Studies at Rutgers University. His many books include works of scholarship, memoir, journalism, and fiction, often focusing on New Jersey culture, such as The George Washington Bridge: Poetry in Steel and The Other Jersey Shore, both from Rutgers University Press.
MICHAEL AARON ROCKLAND is a Professor Emeritus of American Studies at Rutgers University. His many books include works of scholarship, memoir, journalism, and fiction, often focusing on New Jersey culture, such as The George Washington Bridge: Poetry in Steel and The Other Jersey Shore, both from Rutgers University Press.
Descriere
This classic work reveals the fascinating history, iconography, and people behind the twelve-lane behemoth we call the New Jersey Turnpike. Now a special updated and expanded edition examines how the road has changed in the past thirty-five years yet still epitomizes America at its very best and very worst.