Automobile straddling railroad tracks during a race between New York and San Francisco in 1908.
Featured on PDR in the essay American Freedom: Sinclair Lewis and the Open Road
Some three decades before Kerouac and friends hit the road, Sinclair Lewis published Free Air, one of the very first novels about an automobile-powered road trip across the United States. Steven Michels looks at the particular vision of freedom espoused in the tale, one echoed throughout Lewis' oeuvre.
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Automobile Straddling Railroad Tracks During a Race Between New York and San
Date
1908
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