Condition Continued: There are two sections of photographs. They all appear to be in excellent condition.

You can see the dust jacket in the first few photos. It's very clean. It is pretty much free of wear with just a light bit of inconspicuous crinkling at a couple of corners. There are no tears. The flaps are in very solid condition, very clean, with just a little bit of toning. The jacket is NOT price-clipped, not clipped at all. It will be fitted with a protective cover after the photos are scanned.

Harcourt Brace & Company, New York, 1993. Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Written by Douglas Brinkley. Stated First Edition with Letter Line to A. Signed and inscribed by the author on the half-title page. The inscription reads '3/93 For Kathy-- Hope you enjoy this populist manifesto about America. Warm Regards-- Douglas Brinkley.' 

'What happens when a young history professor and a philosopher-trucker with a custom-fitted 'Majic Bus' take seventeen undergraduates across America in a learning-adventure-on-wheels?' Historian David Brinkley wrote this book when he was 32 years old. 'The Majic Bus recounts the maiden voyage of Hofstra University's traveling course, An American Odyssey: Art and Culture across America. At the prompting of students who were restless in the classroom and eager to learn about America by seeing and doing, Professor Douglas Brinkley arranged to teach a six-week experimental class aboard a sleeper bus equipped with beds, stereo-- even a shower. The class would visit thirty states and ten national parks they would read twelve books by great American writers. They would see Bob Dylan in Seattle, gamble at a Vegas Casino, dance to Bourbon Street Jazz in New Orleans, pay homage to Elvis Pressley's Graceland and William Faulkner's Rowan Oak, meditated up Buddhist College in Colorado, brand cattle in South Dakota, hike in the Rockies, ride the white-water rapids on the Rio Grande, and get all shook up in a California quake. (And more). The Majic Bus is a first-person account of this unique learning expedition, driven by Douglas Brinkley's energetic prose; punctuated by telling references and quotable quotes; moving to the sounds of blues, jazz, oldies, and grunge; and illustrated by over sixty student photographs. It is a history of America's past and history-in-the-making; an offbeat travelogue, a blueprint for alternative teaching, and a pop cultural tour de force; attribute to the way of the Beats and the ideals of the Kennedys, and, in the words of historian Stephen Ambrose, a veritable love song to America.'