Angus Kress Gillespie, Michael Aaron Rockland

Gebundenes Buch

Looking for America on the New Jersey Turnpike, Second Edition

Beschreibung

This classic work reveals the fascinating history, iconography, and people behind the twelve-lane behemoth we call the New Jersey Turnpike. Now a special updated and expanded edition examines how the road has changed in the past thirty-five years yet still epitomizes America at its very best and very worst.  

Autor

ANGUS KRESS GILLESPIE is a professor of American studies at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, where he teaches courses in historical and contemporary folklore. A Fulbright professor and a New York Times best-selling author, he has written on subjects ranging from skyscrapers to superhighways.   MICHAEL AARON ROCKLAND is a professor emeritus of American studies at Rutgers University. His many books include works of scholarship, memoir, journalism, and fiction, often focusing on New Jersey culture, such as The George Washington Bridge: Poetry in Steel and The Other Jersey Shore, both from Rutgers University Press. 

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• 2nd Second Edition, New Edition, Second Edition, New edition
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 161mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 508g
• ISBN-13: 9781978835993
• ISBN-10: 197883599X
• Artikelnr.: 69723150