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

by JohnLennon (Author)

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  2014

  $36.47

  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. 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.