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Killer on the Road: Violence and the American Interstate [Audiobook] download free by Ginger Strand

Killer on the Road: Violence and the American Interstate Audiobook download free by Ginger Strand
  • Listen audiobook: Killer on the Road: Violence and the American Interstate
  • Author: Ginger Strand
  • Release date: 2014/12/8
  • Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
  • Language: English
  • Genre or Collection: Transportation
  • ISBN: 9780292757523
  • Rating: 9.07 of 10
  • Votes: 856
  • Review by: Santino Cosby
  • Review rating: 8.31 of 10
  • Review Date: 2018/11/1
  • Duration: 3H16M34S in 256 kbps (52.8 MB)
  • Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-16
  • You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WMA, WAV, AU, MP3, Shorten, WavPack, MPEG4, FLAC (compression RAR, CAB, AZW, ZIP)
  • Total pages original book: 264
  • Includes a PDF summary of 26 pages
  • Duration of the summary (audio): 20M35S (5.2 MB)
  • Description or summary of the audiobook: 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 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. Through 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.
  • Other categories, genre or collection: History Of Engineering & Technology, History Of The Americas, True Crime Biographies, Violence In Society, Crime & Criminology, Motor Cars, Highway & Traffic Engineering, True Crime Books, Transportation Books
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  • Format: Paperback
  • Approximate value: 20.44 USD
  • Dimensions: 140x229x25mm
  • Weight: 538g
  • Printed by: Not Available
  • Published in: Austin, TX, United States

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