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ALSO BY TED CONOVER Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing Whiteout: Lost in Aspen Coyotes: A Journey Across Borders with America’s Mexican Migrants Rolling Nowhere: Riding the Rails with America’s Hoboes TO JAY LEIBOLD I began to see how the road altered not only the way people travelled, but how they perceived the world. —J. B. Jackson, The Necessity for Ruins CONTENTS Introduction One: Forest Primeval to Park Avenue Road or Not a Road? Two: Slipping from Shangri-La Road Ecology Three: The Road Is Very Unfair Double-Edged Roads Four: A War You Can Commute To Speed Up! Five: Capitalist Roaders Growing Broadway Six: Drive Soft—Life No Get Duplicate Epilogue Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography ......