By Todd Depastino
The University of Chicago Press
Chicago, Illinois, and London, England
2003
First page, stressing that these are "Uncorrected Page Proofs," contains information on the forthcoming hardcover publication of this book to be published in September 2003
xxv, [1], 312 p.: 26 in-text illustrations and one illustration leading each of the four parts; 23 cm. (9 inches). Paperback, with glossy black, white and blue illustrated front cover [the cover illustrations are not identified here, but are identified in the hardcover]. Includes Notes [Index would be added to the hardcover]
Uncorrected Page Proofs "In the years following the Civil War, a veritable army of homeless men swept across America's 'wageworkers' frontier' and forged a beguiling and bedeviling counterculture known as 'hobohemia.' Celebrating unfettered masculinity and jealously guarding the American road as the preserve of white manhood, hoboes took command of downtown districts and swaggered onto center stage of the new urban culture. Less obviously, perhaps, they also staked their own claims on the American polity, claims that would in fact transform the very entitlements of American citizenship.
In this eye-opening work of American history, Todd DePastino tells the story of hobohemia's rise and fall, and crafts a stunning new interpretation of the 'American century' in the process. Drawing on sources ranging from diaries, letters, and police reports to movies and memoirs, Citizen Hobo breathes life into the largely forgotten world of the road, but it also, crucially, shows how the hobo army so haunted the American body politic that it prompted the creation of an entirely new social order and political economy. DePastino shows how hoboes - with their reputation as dangers to civilization, sexual savages, and professional idlers - became a cultural and political force, influencing the creation of welfare state measures, the promotion of mass consumption, and the suburbanization of America. Citizen Hobo's sweeping retelling of American nationhood in light of enduring struggles over 'home' does more than chart the change from 'homelessness' to 'houselessness.' In its breadth and scope, the book offers nothing less than an essential new context for thinking about Americans' struggles against inequality and alienation” [from the back cover]
ISBN: 0226143783 [for the hardcover] Book is in Fine/As New Condition: pages and illustrations bright, clean, tight, and unmarked. Quite Scarce!
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