Coast to Coast A Journey Across 1950s America

by Morris, Jan

• ISBN13: 9781885211798
• ISBN10: 1885211791
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-03-22
• Publisher: Travelers' Tales

Summary

A first book by the author of Fifty Years of Europe finds its writer, living very different identity and having recently reported on the first Everestscent in 1953, traveling by various means across the United States anditnessing firsthand the country's optimism and comparative innocence.eprint.

Table of Contents

New Introduction
Introductory
The East
New York, New York!	p. 3
Country Style	p. 12
Traditionalists	p. 20
On Violence	p. 32
Clean Steel	p. 39
A Corner of the World	p. 46
The South
Adam Called It Paradise	p. 57
The Rebel Yell	p. 67
Jerks and Serpents	p. 73
The Mississippi	p. 83
Pilot's Progress	p. 90
Southernmost City	p. 99
The West
Go West	p. 109
Spaniards	p. 122
Pueblos and Navahos	p. 129
More Indians	p. 135
Dams, Bridges, and Bones	p. 144
Mormons	p. 153
A Lively Ghost	p. 161
Creatures of the West	p. 169
The Pacific Coast
On Hollywood	p. 179
Motor-living	p. 186
San Francisco	p. 194
The Sierra Club	p. 203
Lumber	p. 209
Northwest Extremity	p. 218
The Middle West
Portals	p. 227
Chicago	p. 235
In Suburbia	p. 242
Ex-Communists	p. 249
Two Men	p. 255
Newspapers	p. 263
The Cooling Crucible	p. 271
Envoi	p. 280
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