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Lieferstatus:	i.d.R. innert 14-24 Tagen versandfertig
Veröffentlichung:	April 2020
Genre:	Geschichte / Politik / Kultur
	20. Jahrhundert (1900 bis 1999 n. Chr.) / History - U.S. / HISTORY / Social History / HISTORY / United States / 20th Century / Reiseführer / TRAVEL / United States / General / Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA
ISBN:	9781469655000
EAN-Code:	9781469655000
Verlag:	The University of North Carolina Press
Einband:	Gebunden
Sprache:	English
Dimensionen:	H 235 mm / B 155 mm / D 0 mm
Seiten:	264
Illustration:	13 halftones
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"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"--