{"product_id":"9781628929782","title":"BloomsburyUS - Driver's License","description":"BloomsburyUS - Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA classic teenage fetish object, the American driver's license has long  symbolized freedom and mobility in a nation whose design assumes car  travel and whose vastness rivals continents. It is youth's pass to  regulated vice-cigarettes, bars, tattoo parlors, casinos, strip joints,  music venues, guns. In its more recent history, the license has become  increasingly associated with freedom's flipside: screening. The  airport's heightened security checkpoint. Controversial ID voting laws.  Federally mandated, anti-terrorist driver's license re-designs. The  driver's license encapsulates the contradictory values and practices of  contemporary American culture-freedom and security, mobility and  checkpoints, self-definition and standardization, democracy and  exclusion, superficiality and intimacy, the stable self and the self in  flux.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eObject Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47134824333552,"sku":"9781628929782","price":13.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781628929782_p0.jpg?v=1763869421","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781628929782","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}