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Hip to the Trip: A Cultural History of Route 66. By Peter B. Dedek. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2007. x + 169 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $19.95.)
      Perhaps no other highway so thoroughly embodies the mythologies of the open road, the automobile, the western frontier, and rugged individualism as U. S. Highway 66. This book documents Route 66's development as an important early auto and truck artery, connecting Chicago to Los Angeles, from its opening in 1926, to 1985, when it was decommissioned. The author, assistant professor in the Department of Family and Consumer Sciences at Texas State University, San Marcos, also aims to explore the cultural significance of America's "Mother Road." . . .
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