Killer on the Road Violence and the American Interstate

Name: Killer on the Road Violence and the American Interstate
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ISBN: 9780292757523

ISBN-10: 0292757522

ISBN-13: 9780292757523

Edition: 2012

Authors: Ginger Strand

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Starting in the 1950s, Americans eagerly built the planet’s largest public work: the 42,795-mile National System of Interstate and Defense Highways. Before the concrete was dry on the new roads, however, a specter began haunting them—the highway killer. He went by many names: the “Hitcher,” the “Freeway Killer,” the “Killer on the Road,” the “I-5 Strangler,” and the “Beltway Sniper.” Some of these criminals were imagined, but many were real. The nation’s murder rate shot up as its expressways were built. America became more violent and more mobile at the same time. Killer on the Road tells the entwined stories of America’s highways and its highway killers. There’s the hot-rodding juvenile…

Book details

List price: $22.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Publication date: 2/15/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 264
Size: 5.50" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Ginger Strand was raised in Texas, Missouri, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Michigan. Her fiction and essays have appeared in many places, including The Believer, The Iowa Review, The Gettysburg Review, and The Carolina Quarterly. She has been awarded fiction residencies by Yaddo, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Sewanee Writers' Conference. She lives in New York City.