Roadside Americans : the rise and fall of hitchhiking in a changing nation /

"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" a...

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Main Author: Reid, Jack (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2021
Chapel Hill : [2020]
Series:North Carolina scholarship online
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505 0 |a Brother, 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 
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