Description
Title: Looking for America on the New Jersey Turnpike
Author: Angus Kress Gillespie
ISBN: 9780813519555
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 1992
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: None
Condition Note: Clean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher : Two American Studies professors from Rutgers University here show how the New Jersey Turnpike–that “ugly icon, ” America’s “widest and most traveled” road–has found its way into the minds, if not the hearts, of artists and drivers alike. In poet Allen Ginsberg, singer Bruce Springsteen, commuters and roadside home owners lulled to sleep by its drone of traffic, this 12-lane asphalt monster has inspired powerful reactions, from admiration to anger. From the gray-flannel-suit diligence that built it, to the mixture of necessity, practicality and venality that maintains it, the New Jersey Turnpike proves to be an enthralling though unlikely subject.
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