American Road Trip and American Political Thought

It's hard to imagine the American dream without American road trips. This book takes readers on a journey through American road trip stories, revealing that they involve more than mere escapism-that they are an important and long-neglected source of American political thought.

List of contents

Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Seekers
Chapter 2: The Walkers
Chapter 3: The Laborers
Chapter 4: The Bikers
Chapter 5: The Pretenders
Conclusion
Appendix: The Roads Not Taken
Bibliography
About the Author

About the author

Susan McWilliams Barndt is chair and associate professor of the Department of Politics at Pomona College.

Summary

It’s hard to imagine the American dream without American road trips. This book takes readers on a journey through American road trip stories, revealing that they involve more than mere escapism—that they are an important and long-neglected source of American political thought.

Product details

• Authors: Susan McWilliams Barndt, Susan McWilliams Barndt
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781498556866
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-5686-6
• No. of pages: 138
• Series: Politics, Literature, & Film; Politics, Literature, & Film
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, American political thought, American studies, Kerouac, road trips, Thoreau, travel narratives, Twain, Whitman