Majic Bus : An American Odyssey

by Brinkley, Douglas

• ISBN13: 9780385474191
• ISBN10: 0385474199
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 1994-07-01
• Publisher: Anchor

Summary

Professor Brinkley arranged to teach a six-week experimental class aboard a sleeper bus. The class would visit 30 states and ten national parks. They would read 12 books by American writers. Driven by Brinkley's energetic prose, "The Majic Bus" is a spirited travelogue of their unique experience.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
There is No Truth But in Transit: The Making of "An American Odyssey"	p. 12
Frank Perugi and His "Majic Bus"	p. 34
Virginia Is for Lovers of Thomas Jefferson and Sam Shepard	p. 60
In Thomas Wolfe Country with Georgia on Our Minds	p. 81
Back from the Wind: Atlanta and New Orleans	p. 103
Into the Mississippi Delta	p. 130
Chicago: Our Kind of Town	p. 153
From Lincoln's Springfield to Truman's Independence	p. 171
William S. Burroughs and the Sunflower State	p. 202
The New Age, Buddhism, and Boulder	p. 222
The Rocky Mountains and Mesa Verde National Park	p. 250
Billy the Kid, D. H. Lawrence, and the Land of Enchantment	p. 277
Fifteen Minutes of Fame, Route 66, and the Grand Canyon	p. 312
Slot Machines and Neon Lights in the Mojave Desert	p. 332
Santa Barbara and Carmel (Or, Looking for Clint Eastwood in Steinbeck Country)	p. 356
San Francisco: The Gold and White Acropolis	p. 384
Redwood Battles, Bigfoot, Paul Bunyan, and Earthquakes	p. 407
Further with Ken Kesey and Bob Dylan in the Grunge Belt	p. 426
The Badlands, Black Hills, and Cattle Branding	p. 453
Afterword	p. 484
Acknowledgments	p. 493
Selected Bibliography	p. 498
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