Roadside Americans : The Rise and Fall of Hitchhiking in a Changing Nation /

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"Between the Great Depression and the mid-1970s, hitchhikers were a common sight for motorists, as American service members, students, and adventurers sought out the romance of the road in droves. Beats, hippies, feminists, and civil rights and antiwar activists saw "thumb tripping" a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Reid, Jack (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2020]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Hitchhiking > Social aspects.
Hitchhiking.
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
Auto-stop > Opinion publique.
Auto-stop > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Auto-stop > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Hitchhiking > Public opinion.
Hitchhiking > Social aspects > United States.
Hitchhiking > United States > History > 20th century.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:"Between the Great Depression and the mid-1970s, hitchhikers were a common sight for motorists, as American service members, students, and adventurers sought out the romance of the road in droves. Beats, hippies, feminists, and civil rights and antiwar activists saw "thumb tripping" as a vehicle for liberation, living out the counterculture's rejection of traditional values. Yet, by the time Ronald Reagan, a former hitchhiker himself, was in the White House, the youthful faces on the road chasing the ghost of Jack Kerouac were largely gone--along with sympathetic portrayals of the practice in state legislatures and the media"--
Physical Description:1 online resource (264 pages).
ISBN:9781469655024

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