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PublisherJohns Hopkins University Press
ISBN-100801836530
ISBN-139780801836534
eBay Product ID (ePID)768291
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Book TitleBeer Can by the Highway : Essays on What's American about America
Number of Pages264 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1988
TopicShort Stories (Single Author), Essays, United States / General
FeaturesReprint
IllustratorYes
GenreNature, Fiction, Literary Collections, History
AuthorJohn A. Kouwenhoven
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight10.9 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width5.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN87-046303
Reviews"Kouwenhoven is... an acute and extraordinarily genial analyst of our mechanized folkware." -- Charles Poore, New York Times
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Edition DescriptionReprint
Table Of ContentForeword Preface Chapter 1. Preliminary Glance at an American Landscape Chapter 2. The Dispraising of America Chapter 3. What's "American" About America Chapter 4. The Curriculum of Discovery Chapter 5. Liberal Crafts and Illiberal Arts Chapter 6. Farewell, Architecture! Chapter 7. What is "American" in Architecture and Design? Chapter 8. Up Tails All Chapter 9. Soft Sell, Hard Sell, Padded Sell Chapter 10. The Beer Can by the Highway Acknowledgments Index
SynopsisFirst published in 1961, The Beer Can by the Highway takes a provocative, wide-ranging look at America's ever-changing physical and intellectual landscapes, from advertising and jazz to Manhattan's skyline and the prairies of the Midwest. The Johns Hopkins edition features a foreword by Ralph Ellison, who praises the work as 'one that springs from deep within that rich segment of the American grain which gave us the likes of Emerson and Whitman, Horatio Greenough and Constance Rourke -- yes, and Mark Twain.', First published in 1961, The Beer Can by the Highway takes a provocative, wide-ranging look at America's ever-changing physical and intellectual landscapes, from advertising and jazz to Manhattan's skyline and the prairies of the Midwest. The Johns Hopkins edition features a foreword by Ralph Ellison, who praises the work as 'one that springs from ......, First published in 1961, The Beer Can by the Highway takes a provocative, wide-ranging look at America's ever-changing physical and intellectual landscapes, from advertising and jazz to Manhattan's skyline and the prairies of the Midwest. The Johns Hopkins edition features a foreword by Ralph Ellison, who praises the work as "one that springs from deep within that rich segment of the American grain which gave us the likes of Emerson and Whitman, Horatio Greenough and Constance Rourke--yes, and Mark Twain."
LC Classification NumberE169.1.K67 1988
