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Download or read book The Beer Can by the Highway written by John A. Kouwenhoven and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1988-05 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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."