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Hitchhiking Across America 1963
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Author : Daniel Robinson
language : en
Publisher: Atmosphere Press
Release Date : 2021-08-31
Hitchhiking Across America 1963 written by Daniel Robinson and has been published by Atmosphere Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-31 with Fiction categories.
Nick is a nineteen-year-old college student at UC Berkeley who quits his Lake Tahoe summer job to see America and meet Americans, face-to-face, hitching rides from Tahoe to Los Angeles, New Orleans, Miami, New York City, and points in-between. He witnesses Jim Crow segregation in the South. He meets Yvonne, the daughter of a Palm Beach socialite. He learns something unexpected about his mother from his Aunt Rose's family photo album. World War II vets pick him up and tell him about their war experience and how it affects their current lives. He meets Oliver, a civil rights activist in Mississippi, and Gina, an aspiring Olympic swimmer, and Lorena, an aging silent film star in Palm Springs. He consoles Rosa, a young Mexican woman who has committed a mortal sin. Hitchhiking Across America: 1963 by Daniel Robinson is about how America is changing. World War II, Civil rights, Vietnam, social mores, McCarthyism...all these things play a role.
Hitchhiking Across America
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Author : Doug Van Gorder
language : en
Publisher: Outskirts Press
Release Date : 2009-07-19
Hitchhiking Across America written by Doug Van Gorder and has been published by Outskirts Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07-19 with Family & Relationships categories.
Today I will hope for a ride This is how I survive I need to bury my pride And pray to God I stay alive.
Hitchhiking In America Using The Golden Thumb
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Author : Dale Carpenter
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2013-08-31
Hitchhiking In America Using The Golden Thumb written by Dale Carpenter and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-31 with categories.
"Though it tends to be looked down upon as a trivial activity confined to vagrants, the feeble-minded, sex maniacs and serial killers, hitchhiking needs to be re-valued as a means to an end (transportation and self-education) and as an end in itself (as suggested by Jack London's wonderful paragraphs quoted at the top of p. 35).""This is a source book, not just a casual handbook, and by its appeal to a long tradition it gives hitchhiking well-deserved stature. People have been hitchhiking since the first vehicle - probably a raft - was invented.Odysseus hitchhiked, St. Paul hitchhiked; anyone who hitchhikes today is keeping alive an ancient and honorable tradition and your book will help readers put modern hitchhiking into its particularly American context."Prof. Daniel H. GarrisonDepartment of Classics, Northwestern University -Presenter of a lecture that students refer to as "Hitchhiking as an Art Form."
Seven Thousand Miles To Nowhere
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Author : Walt McLaughlin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-08-21
Seven Thousand Miles To Nowhere written by Walt McLaughlin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-21 with Travel categories.
During the summer of '76, a disillusioned college boy set aside his books long enough to hitchhike from Ohio to British Columbia and back. A hunger for meaning stirred deep within as he climbed in and out of other people's cars, other people's lives, while dealing with the realities of the open road. Truckers, a philosopher/farmer, cowboys, born-again Christians and hippies all had something more to offer, but the author kept moving through the western American landscape until he reached a dead end. Then the adventure really began. This is a tale of numerous highway encounters and one young man's attempt to make sense of the world in the process.
Carsick
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Author : John Waters
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 2014-06-03
Carsick written by John Waters and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-03 with Travel categories.
Carsick is the New York Times bestselling chronicle of a cross-country hitchhiking journey with America's most beloved weirdo. John Waters is putting his life on the line. Armed with wit, a pencil-thin mustache, and a cardboard sign that reads "I'm Not Psycho," he hitchhikes across America from Baltimore to San Francisco, braving lonely roads and treacherous drivers. But who should we be more worried about, the delicate film director with genteel manners or the unsuspecting travelers transporting the Pope of Trash? Before he leaves for this bizarre adventure, Waters fantasizes about the best and worst possible scenarios: a friendly drug dealer hands over piles of cash to finance films with no questions asked, a demolition-derby driver makes a filthy sexual request in the middle of a race, a gun-toting drunk terrorizes and holds him hostage, and a Kansas vice squad entraps and throws him in jail. So what really happens when this cult legend sticks out his thumb and faces the open road? His real-life rides include a gentle eighty-one-year-old farmer who is convinced Waters is a hobo, an indie band on tour, and the perverse filmmaker's unexpected hero: a young, sandy-haired Republican in a Corvette. Laced with subversive humor and warm intelligence, Carsick is an unforgettable vacation with a wickedly funny companion—and a celebration of America's weird, astonishing, and generous citizenry.
Sundays At Eight
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Author : Brian Lamb
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2014-04-29
Sundays At Eight written by Brian Lamb and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-29 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
For the last 25 years, Sunday nights at 8pm on C-SPAN has been appointment television for many Americans. During that time, host Brian Lamb has invited people to his Capitol Hill studio for hour-long conversations about contemporary society and history. In today's soundbite culture that hour remains one of television's last vestiges of in-depth, civil conversation. First came C-SPAN's Booknotes in 1989, which by the time it ended in December 2004, was the longest-running author-interview program in American broadcast history. Many of the most notable nonfiction authors of its era were featured over the course of 800 episodes, and the conversations became a defining hour for the network and for nonfiction writers. In January 2005, C-SPAN embarked on a new chapter with the launch of Q and A. Again one hour of uninterrupted conversation but the focus was expanded to include documentary film makers, entrepreneurs, social workers, political leaders and just about anyone with a story to tell. To mark this anniversary Lamb and his team at C-SPAN have assembled Sundays at Eight, a collection of the best unpublished interviews and stories from the last 25 years. Featured in this collection are historians like David McCullough, Ron Chernow and Robert Caro, reporters including April Witt, John Burns and Michael Weisskopf, and numerous others, including Christopher Hitchens, Brit Hume and Kenneth Feinberg. In a March 2001 Booknotes interview 60 Minutes creator Don Hewitt described the show's success this way: "All you have to do is tell me a story." This collection attests to the success of that principle, which has guided Lamb for decades. And his guests have not disappointed, from the dramatic escape of a lifelong resident of a North Korean prison camp, to the heavy price paid by one successful West Virginia businessman when he won 314 million in the lottery, or the heroic stories of recovery from the most horrific injuries in modern-day warfare. Told in the series' signature conversational manner, these stories come to life again on the page. Sundays at Eight is not merely a token for fans of C-SPAN's interview programs, but a collection of significant stories that have helped us understand the world for a quarter-century.
American Maze
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Author : Ralph Peduto
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010-11
American Maze written by Ralph Peduto and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11 with Fiction categories.
American Maze is a fish-out-of-water road story about two young guys from Jersey City, NJ on the lam from two mob hit men. Our heroes, Rayf and Cal, with absolutely nothing to live on but their wits hitchhike through America's turbulent southland during the month of November in the year 1963 - the exact time of JFK's assassination -- http://www.amazon.com/American-Maze-Only-One-Way/dp/0984114041/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1417731265&sr=8-1&keywords=9780984114047
Roadside Americans
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Author : Jack Reid
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2020-02-14
Roadside Americans written by Jack Reid and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-14 with History categories.
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. In Roadside Americans, Jack Reid traces the rise and fall of hitchhiking, offering vivid accounts of life on the road and how the act of soliciting rides from strangers, and the attitude toward hitchhikers in American society, evolved over time in synch with broader economic, political, and cultural shifts. In doing so, Reid offers insight into significant changes in the United States amid the decline of liberalism and the rise of the Reagan Era.
The Great Shark Hunt
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Author : Hunter S. Thompson
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2012-03-22
The Great Shark Hunt written by Hunter S. Thompson and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-22 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
‘Well . . .yes, and here we go again’ Dr Hunter S. Thompson Indeed we do. Here, in one chunky volume, is the best of gonzo. From Private Thompson in trouble with the air force, to the devastating portrait of the ageing Muhammad Ali. Taking in the Kentucky Derby, Freak Power in the Rockies, Nixon in ’68, McGovern in ’72, Fear and Loathing at the Watergate, Jimmy Carter and the Great Leap of Faith – and much more. An indispensable compendium of decadence, depravity and horse-sense. ‘Hunter Thompson elicits the same kind of admiration one would feel for a streaker at Queen Victoria’s funeral’ William F. Buckley ‘No other reporter reveals how much we have to fear and loathe, yet does it so hilariously. Now that the dust of the sixties has settled, his hallucinated vision strikes one as having been the sanest’ Nelson Algren
Blood On The Stage 1975 2000
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Author : Amnon Kabatchnik
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2012
Blood On The Stage 1975 2000 written by Amnon Kabatchnik and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Literary Criticism categories.
Describes more than 80 full-length plays produced in the last quarter of the 20th century, with an emphasis on New York and London performances.