The Beer Can by the Highway: Essays on What's American about America

by John A. Kouwenhoven

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801836530
• ISBN13: 9780801836534
• Release Date: May 1988
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.2" x 8.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

very goood book

This is a very good book to read. a classic. IF you like his other stuff you will love this book. It even has beer in the title.