{"product_id":"boxcar-politics-john-lennon-9781625341204","title":"Boxcar Politics: The Hobo in U.S. Culture and Literature, 1869-1956","description":"The hobo is a figure ensconced in the cultural fabric of the United States. Once categorized as a member of a homeless army who ought to be jailed or killed, the hobo has evolved into a safe, grandfatherly exemplar of Americana. \u003ci\u003eBoxcar Politics\u003c\/i\u003e reestablishes the hobo's political thorns. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJohn Lennon maps the rise and demise of the political hobo from the nineteenth-century introduction of the transcontinental railroad to the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956. Intertwining literary, historical, and theoretical representations of the hobo, he explores how riders and writers imagined alternative ways that working-class people could use mobility to create powerful dissenting voices outside of fixed hierarchal political organizations. Placing portrayals of hobos in the works of Jack London, Jim Tully, John Dos Passos, and Jack Kerouac alongside the lived reality of people hopping trains (including hobos of the IWW, the Scottsboro Boys, and those found in numerous long-forgotten memoirs), Lennon investigates how these marginalized individuals exerted collective political voices through subcultural practices.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John Lennon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1625341202\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781625341204\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Massachusetts Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/14\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 232\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.81lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.28h x 6.00w x 0.68d","brand":"John Lennon","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46431391121663,"sku":"9781625341204","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_95d0c98f-821a-4f8a-a6d1-79cd22435790.jpg?v=1735141180","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/boxcar-politics-john-lennon-9781625341204","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}