First published in 1961, The Beer Can by the Highway takes a provocative, wide-ranging look at America's ever-changing physical and intellectual landscapes, from advertising and jazz to Manhattan's skyline and the prairies of the Midwest. The Johns Hopkins edition features a foreword by Ralph Ellison, who praises the work as one that springs from deep within that rich segment of the American grain which gave us the likes of Emerson and Whitman, Horatio Greenough and Constance Rourke -- yes, and Mark Twain.
- ISBN10 0801836670
- ISBN13 9780801836671
- Publish Date 1 May 1988
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 12 January 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Johns Hopkins University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 255
- Language English