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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Reid, Jack (Author)
Corporate Author:	JSTOR (Organization)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2020]
Subjects:	Hitchhiking > United States > History > 20th century. Hitchhiking > Social aspects > United States. Hitchhiking > Public opinion. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Introduction: You never have to drive very far to find a hitchhiker
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
Epilogue: Something has changed.