This title maps the rise and demise of the political hobo from the nineteenth-century introduction of the transcontinental railroad to the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956. The book explores how riders and writers imagined alternative ways that working-class people could use mobility to create powerful dissenting voices outside of fixed hierarchal political organizations.

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Format: Trade Paperback
Author: Lennon, John
ISBN: 9781625341204
Condition: Used
Dimensions: 9.28 x 0.68
Number Of Pages: 232
Publication Year: 2014

Boxcar Politics: The Hobo in U.S. Culture and Literature, 1869-1956

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