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The American Road Trip and American Political Thought (Paperback)
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The American Road Trip and American Political Thought (Paperback)
Series: Politics, Literature, & Film
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Americans love road trips. They love to go on road trips. They love
to read about road trips. They love to watch road trip stories
unfold on television and film. Road trip stories are a consistent
feature of the American landscape, a central part of American
mythology, and an important piece of the American dream. In The
American Road Trip and American Political Thought, Susan McWilliams
argues that the American fascination with road trip stories is
about more than mere escapism or wanderlust. She shows, in walking
through stories like On the Road and The Grapes of Wrath, that
American road trip stories are a key expression of American
political thought. They are not just stories of personal journeys.
They are stories of the American nation. McWilliams Barndt shows
how Americans have long used road trip stories to raise and explore
central questions about American politics in theory and practice.
They talk about freedom and equality and diversity and take those
vaunted American ideals for a test drive. American road trip
stories are where the rubber meets the road in American political
thought. The American Road Trip and American Political Thought
includes explorations of a wide variety of American authors, from
Walt Whitman and Henry David Thoreau to Erika Lopez and Cheryl
Strayed, from Mark Twain and John Steinbeck to Solomon Northup and
Hunter S. Thompson. It covers topics including gender, labor,
place, race, and technology in American political life. This is a
book that will change the way you think about the great American
road trip and the great American story.
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