{"product_id":"killer-on-the-road-violence-and-the-american-interstate-paperback","title":"Killer on the Road: Violence and the American Interstate - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGinger Strand\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStarting 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eKiller on the Road\u003c\/i\u003e tells the entwined stories of America's highways and its highway killers. There's the hot-rodding juvenile delinquent who led the National Guard on a multistate manhunt; the wannabe highway patrolman who murdered hitchhiking coeds; the record promoter who preyed on \"ghetto kids\" in a city reshaped by freeways; the nondescript married man who stalked the interstates seeking women with car trouble; and the trucker who delivered death with his cargo. Thudding away behind these grisly crime sprees is the story of the interstates--how they were sold, how they were built, how they reshaped the nation, and how we came to equate them with violence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough the stories of highway killers, we see how the \"killer on the road,\" like the train robber, the gangster, and the mobster, entered the cast of American outlaws, and how the freeway--conceived as a road to utopia--came to be feared as a highway to hell.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGinger Strand is the author of \u003ci\u003eInventing Niagara\u003c\/i\u003e, a Border's Original Voices choice, and \u003ci\u003eFlight\u003c\/i\u003e, a novel. Her nonfiction has appeared in many places, including \u003ci\u003eHarper's\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOnEarth\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Believer\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eOrion\u003c\/i\u003e, where she is a contributing editor. She grew up mostly in Michigan and now lives in New York City, but spends a lot of time on the road.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 264\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.2 x 8.8 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 15, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51754140860704,"sku":"9780292757523","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/d89986d4f1f5a4b96b598a684144ba92.webp?v=1780034287","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/killer-on-the-road-violence-and-the-american-interstate-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}