Don't Make Me Pull Over!: An Informal History of the Family Road Trip

Richard Ratay

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Idioma: inglés

Editorial: Scribner, 2018

1501188747 / 9781501188749

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Used like new hardcover in new dust jacket. Text is clean and free of marks or underlining. Publisher's overstock mark on the bottom of the text block. Includes index. 288 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. "A lighthearted, entertaining trip down Memory Lane" (Kirkus Reviews), Don't Make Me Pull Over! offers a nostalgic look at the golden age of family road trips--before portable DVD players, smartphones, and Google Maps. The birth of America's first interstate highways in the 1950s hit the gas pedal on the road trip phenomenon and families were soon streaming--sans seatbelts!--to a range of sometimes stirring, sometimes wacky locations. In the days before cheap air travel, families didn't so much take vacations as survive them. Between home and destination lay thousands of miles and dozens of annoyances, and with his family Richard Ratay experienced all of them--from being crowded into the backseat with noogie-happy older brothers, to picking out a souvenir only to find that a better one might have been had at the next attraction, to dealing with a dad who didn't believe in bathroom breaks. Now, decades later, Ratay offers "an amiable guide.fun and informative" (New York Newsday) that "goes down like a cold lemonade on a hot summer's day" (The Wall Street Journal). In hundreds of amusing ways, he reminds us of what once made the Great American Family Road Trip so great, including twenty-foot "land yachts," oasis-like Holiday Inn "Holidomes," "Smokey"-spotting Fuzzbusters, twenty-eight glorious flavors of Howard Johnson's ice cream, and the thrill of finding a "good buddy" on the CB radio. An "informative, often hilarious family narrative [that] perfectly captures the love-hate relationship many have with road trips" (Publishers Weekly), Don't Make Me Pull Over! reveals how the family road trip came to be, how its evolution mirrored the country's, and why those magical journeys that once brought families together--for better and worse--have largely disappeared.

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Título
Don't Make Me Pull Over!: An Informal History of the Family Road Trip
Autor
Richard Ratay
Editorial
Scribner
Año de publicación
2018
Estado
Used Like New
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New
Encuadernación
Hardcover
Idioma
inglés
ISBN 10
1501188747
ISBN 13
9781501188749
Catálogos de vendedores
Children and Family Studies, Humor, Travel

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