{"product_id":"9781573221351","title":"The Distance to the Moon: A Road Trip into the American Dream","description":"\u003ci\u003eThe Distance to the Moon\u003c\/i\u003e is about America's love affair with the car and the open road--what James Morgan calls \"the epic entanglement that's defined this century and reshaped the face of America.\" Morgan takes us on an unforgettable road trip from Florida to Oregon, interviewing everyone from automobile collectors and designers, historians, psychologists, road builders, city planners, and barflies in an attempt to reveal why we're so obsessed with our automobiles. These car stories, he found, serve as our common mythology, and tell of our collective coming of age, our youthful aspirations, our loves and losses. Morgan also discovered that the simplicity of life on the road can give us the clearest picture of who we are as Americans.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The human case for the automobile has never been more persuasively presented.\"--\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I was immediately caught up in \u003ci\u003eThe Distance to the Moon\u003c\/i\u003e. It's a fine reflection on America's complex relationship with cars and the road.\"--Larry McMurtry\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An entertaining traveling companion...The book's title...comes courtesy of John Updike [who] calculated that the average American male drives the equivalent of the distance to the moon every 17 years. Morgan's book takes us a long way toward understanding why.\"     --Bruce McCall, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A thoughtful, eloquent contribution to the road book canon.\"--\u003ci\u003eForbes FYI\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eJames Morgan is the author of \u003ci\u003eIf These Walls Had Ears: The Biography of a House\u003c\/i\u003e. A former editor of \u003ci\u003ePlayboy\u003c\/i\u003e, he has written articles for as \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGQ\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e among other publications.  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47300940005616,"sku":"9781573221351","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781573221351_p0.gif?v=1763781254","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781573221351","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}