The Lincoln Highway A Tenth Anniversary Edition: Main Street Across America - Softcover

Hokansen, Drake

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0877456763 ISBN 13: 9780877456766

Verlag: University of Iowa Press, 1999

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Book by Hokanson Drake

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"This is a model photographic essay: the essay is as carefully composed, as beautifully finished, as the pictures. Hokanson, who says he doesn't like long drives, has written unforgettably about those who do."--Christian Science Monitor "With his lively pen and lyric camera, Mr. Hokanson takes us on a journey of discovery. The open road is, in part, a defining characteristic of this country, and the Lincoln Highway is one of the historic traces . . . like the Oregon Trail, the Camino Real, or the National Road. Not just for tourists, the Lincoln Highway accelerated the processes of social mobility, changed our geography, and led inexorably to a new America. This is an important story, well researched and beautifully, perceptively told."--William L. Withuhn, Curator of Transportation, Smithsonian Institution This is a model photographic essay: the essay is as carefully composed, as beautifully finished, as the pictures. Hokanson, who says he doesn't like long drives, has written unforgettably about those who do. "Christian Science Monitor"" With his lively pen and lyric camera, Mr. Hokanson takes us on a journey of discovery. The open road is, in part, a defining characteristic of this country, and the Lincoln Highway is one of the historic traces . . . like the Oregon Trail, the Camino Real, or the National Road. Not just for tourists, the Lincoln Highway accelerated the processes of social mobility, changed our geography, and led inexorably to a new America. This is an important story, well researched and beautifully, perceptively told. William L. Withuhn, Curator of Transportation, Smithsonian Institution" "This is a model photographic essay: the essay is as carefully composed, as beautifully finished, as the pictures. Hokanson, who says he doesn't like long drives, has written unforgettably about those who do."--"Christian Science Monitor" "With his lively pen and lyric camera, Mr. Hokanson takes us on a journey of discovery. The open road is, in part, a defining characteristic of this country, and the Lincoln Highway is one of the historic traces . . . like the Oregon Trail, the Camino Real, or the National Road. Not just for tourists, the Lincoln Highway accelerated the processes of social mobility, changed our geography, and led inexorably to a new America. This is an important story, well researched and beautifully, perceptively told."--William L. Withuhn, Curator of Transportation, Smithsonian Institution

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This text aims to inspire readers to leave the interstate for a road less travelled, but one that still fuels the American preoccupation with the open road. In his introduction to this tenth anniversary edition, the author revisits the Lincoln highway and finds it changed - much for the better.

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• Verlag: University of Iowa Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0877456763
• ISBN 13: 9780877456766
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256