Looking for America on the New Jersey Turnpike, Second Edition - Gillespie, Angus Kress; Rockland, Michael Aaron
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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.  

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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.  
Autorenporträt
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.