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Cover 1 Title Page, Copyright, Dedication 2 Contents 8 Introduction: You Never Have to Drive Very Far to Find a Hitchhiker 14 1. Brother, Can You Spare a Ride? Hitchhiking in the Great Depression, 1928￢ﾀﾓ1940 28 2. It￢ﾀﾙs Easy for a Soldier Boy to Catch Rides: Hitchhiking during World War II, 1941￢ﾀﾓ1947 58 3. The Dangerous Stranger: Hitchhiking in the Age of Affluence, 1948￢ﾀﾓ1959 86 4. An Unfiltered Dose of the Human Condition: Hitchhiking and the Pursuit of Authenticity, 1960￢ﾀﾓ1967 116 5. Riders on the Storm: Countercultural Hitchhiking and Conservative Resistance, 1968￢ﾀﾓ1975 146 6. Goin￢ﾀﾙ Down the Road Feelin￢ﾀﾙ Bad: The Decline of Hitchhiking, 1976￢ﾀﾓ1988 174 Epilogue: Something Has Changed 198 Acknowledgments 206 Notes 210 Bibliography 244 Index 256 Publisher:The University of North Carolina Press,Published:2020,ISBN:9781469655024,Related ISBN:9781469655000,Language:English,OCLC:1140970052 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 tripp

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Author

Reid, Jack

Publisher

The University of North Carolina Press

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9781469655000

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Travel, Science