The Majic Bus: An American Odyssey [Anglais] [Broché]

Chronicles six weeks on the road with an experimental college history class which crisscrossed the country on a sleeper bus.
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Professor Douglas Brinkley arranged to teach a six-week experimental class aboard a fully equipped sleeper bus. The class would visit thirty states and ten national parks. They would read twelve books by great American writers. They would see Bob Dylan in Seattle, gamble at a Vegas casino, dance to Bourbon Street jazz in New Orleans, pay homage to Elvis Presley's Graceland and William Faulkner's Rowan Oak, ride the whitewater rapids on the Rio Grande, and experience a California earthquake. Their journey took them to Thomas Jefferson's Monticello, Abraham Lincoln's Springfield, Harry Truman's Independence, and Theodore Roosevelt's North Dakota badlands. And it gave them the unforgettable experience of meeting some of their cultural heroes, including William S. Burroughs and Ken Kesey, who took the gang for a spin in his own psychedelic bus. Driven by Doug Brinkley's energetic prose, The Majic Bus is a spirited travelogue of a unique experience.

Excerpts from student journals and photographs mark a Hofstra University professor's account of his ""travelling classroom,"" in which seventeen students took a six-week bus tour across America, reading, meeting cultural heroes, and experiencing the country. 25,000 first printing. --Ce texte fait référence à une édition épuisée ou non disponible de ce titre.

Seeking a better way to teach history to undergraduates, Professor Douglas Brinkley acquired a sleeper bus and took his classroom on the road. From the six-week journey across America that he and seventeen students undertook visiting historical sites such as Monticello and meeting with William Burroughs and other cultural heroes, Brinkley has crafted a lively, engaging travelogue that reaches toward a new understanding of what it means to be an American.

"A veritable love song to America."--Stephen Ambrose --Ce texte fait référence à une édition épuisée ou non disponible de ce titre.