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Are we there yet? : the golden age of American family vacations / Susan Sessions Rugh.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rugh, Susan Sessions, author.
- Series:
- CultureAmerica Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- National characteristics, American.
- United States--Social life and customs--20th century.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (254 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2008]
- Summary:
- An entertaining cultural history of the American family vacation during the height of its popularity from 1945 to 1973. Reveals the ways in which the ritual of the family road trip, for most middle-class Americans became a way of defining what it meant to be (and become) American.
- Contents:
- Selling the family vacation
- Pilgrimage
- Vacation without humiliation
- Western adventure
- Back to nature
- Summer in the country.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780700638208
- 0700638202
- OCLC:
- 1450839130
- Publisher Number:
- heb40482 hdl
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