num_pages: 264
description: 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."
language: English
title: The Beer Can by the Highway: Essays on What's American about America
titlecomplete: The Beer Can by the Highway: Essays on What's American about America
ratings_count: 18
publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press