The Majic Bus: An American Odyssey

Douglas Brinkley

Hartcourt Brace, 1993 - History - 513 pages

In response to a student's question, history professor Douglas Brinkley formed a new kind of history course. Seventeen students were selected to join the maiden voyage of Hofstra University's traveling classroom in a course called An American Odyssey: Art and Culture Across America. The roving classroom visited 30 states on a sleeper bus over a six-week period in a unique learning expedition. 20 photos.

Contents

• Frank Perugi and His Majic Bus: 34
• 3: 45
• Sam Shepard: 60

About the author

Douglas Brinkley was born in Atlanta, Georgia on December 14, 1960. He received a B.A. from Ohio State University in 1982 and a Ph.D. from Georgetown University in 1989. He was a professor at Tulane University, Princeton University, the U.S. Naval Academy, Hofstra University, and the University of New Orleans. In 2007, he became a professor at Rice University and the James Baker Institute for Public Policy. He is a commentator for CBS News and a contributing editor to the magazine Vanity Fair. His first book, Jean Monnet: The Path to European Unity, was published in 1992. His other works include Dean Acheson: The Cold War Years, The Unfinished Presidency: Jimmy Carter's Journey Beyond the White House, Wheels for the World: Henry Ford, His Company, and a Century of Progress, The Boys of Pointe du Hoc: Ronald Reagan, D-Day, and the U.S. Army 2nd Ranger Battalion, The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America, Cronkite, and Rightful Heritage: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Land of America. He also wrote three books with historian Stephen E. Ambrose: The Rise to Globalism: American Foreign Policy Since 1938, Witness to History, and The Mississippi and the Making of a Nation: From the Louisiana Purchase to Today. He has won several awards including the Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt Naval History Prize for Driven Patriot and the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award for The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Majic Bus: An American Odyssey
• Author: Douglas Brinkley
• Publisher: Hartcourt Brace, 1993
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: Sep 17, 2008
• ISBN: 0151556946, 9780151556946
• Length: 513 pages
• Subjects: History / United States / 20th Century; History / United States / General; Travel / Essays & Travelogues; Travel / United States / General