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001			on1119068504
003			OCoLC
005			20200522153043.0
008			190903s2020 ncua b s001 0 eng
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020			_a9781469655000 _qhardcover _qalkaline paper
020			_a1469655004 _qhardcover _qalkaline paper
020			_z9781469655017 _qelectronic book
035			_a(OCoLC)1119068504
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092			_a917.3049 _bR356
049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aReid, Jack, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aRoadside Americans : _bthe rise and fall of hitchhiking in a changing nation / _cJack Reid.
264		1	_aChapel Hill : _bThe University of North Carolina Press, _c[2020]
300			_a251 pages : _billustrations ; _c25 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aBrother, can you spare a ride? Hitchhiking in the Great Depression, 1928-1940 -- It's easy for a soldier boy to catch rides : hitchhiking during World War II, 1941-1947 -- The dangerous stranger : hitchhiking in the age of affluence, 1948-1959 -- An unfiltered dose of the human condition : hitchhiking and the pursuit of authenticity, 1960-1967 -- Riders on the storm : countercultural hitchhiking and conservative resistance, 1968-1975 -- Goin' down the road feelin' bad : the decline of hitchhiking, 1976-1988.
520			_a"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"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aHitchhiking _zUnited States _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aHitchhiking _xSocial aspects _zUnited States.
650		0	_aHitchhiking _xPublic opinion.
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