The road trip is a staple of modern American literature. But
nowhere in American literature, until now, has a left-wing
economist hit the road, observing and interpreting the
extraordinary range and spectacle of U.S. life, bringing out its
conflicts and contradictions with humor and insight.
Disillusioned with academic life after thirty-two years teaching
economics, Michael D. Yates took early retirement in 2001, with a
pension account that had doubled during the dot.com frenzy of the
late 1990s. He and his wife Karen sold their house, got rid of
their belongings, and have moved around the country since then,
often spending months at a time on the road. Michael and Karen
spent the summer of 2001 in Yellowstone National Park, where
Michael worked as a hotel front-desk clerk. They moved to Manhattan
for a year, where he worked for "Monthly Review," From there they
went to Portland, Oregon, to explore the Pacific Northwest. After
five months of travel in Summer and Fall 2004, they settled in
Miami Beach. Ahead of the 2005 hurricane season, they went back on
the road, settling this time in Colorado.
Cheap Motels and a Hotplate is both an account of their
adventures and a penetrating examination of work and inequality,
race and class, alienation and environmental degradation in the
small towns and big cities of the contemporary United States.
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