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With Another Road, author and scholar Ed Caudill has rewarded readers with a new and unique view of the American highway. The book offers a fascinating view of the importance of American roads, traveling down the muddy cowpaths of the early republic to cruising over the wide and often-controversial multi-layered interstates of modern life. This book is a travel guide, not to a place or a route, but to a way into cultural values-myths-and how roads empower Americans to do the one thing they enjoy and need more than all else: to ""hit the road."" The impulse to motion expedites traditions of this being a land of opportunity, egalitarianism, of a frontier ""out there,"" unique individualism and even rebelliousness. For Americans, there is always someplace else to go, some new vista to see, some new landscape to contemplate. We take for granted our right to travel, and so we should. It is a right carved into our laws and our psyches. This book tells you why and how we do that.

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Ed Caudill is a retired journalism professor who taught at the University of Tennessee for more than 30 years. He spent summers meandering the country, and beyond, with his two sons, and in the school year he taught editing and history. At UT, his books earned him tenure and ire, being outside the usual academic dreariness of jargon-laden journals that no one read. His numerous books have focused largely, but not exclusively, on American imagination and memory. With co-author and professor emeritus Paul Ashdown, those books have looked at Civil War figures. Caudill's other work have looked at the impact of Darwinism in American culture, from publication of On the Origin of Species in 1859 through the 1925 Scopes Trial. He continues to write between road trips around the country, especially to places that offer good fly fishing from Georgia to Alaska.

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