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

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 264 pages
• Published by: The Johns Hopkins University Press April 1, 1988
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0801836530
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0801836534
• Book Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.2 x 0.7 inches
• Weighs: 11.4 ounces

Product Review


"Kouwenhoven is an acute and extraordinarily genial analyst of our mechanized folkware." -- Charles Poore, New York Times

Product Description


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."

Reader Reviews
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.