The Long Haul: A Trucker's Tales of Life on the Road
By: Finn Murphy
3.96
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
“There’s nothing semi about Finn Murphy’s trucking tales of The Long Haul .”―Sloane Crosley, Vanity…
Want to Read $ 9.99"Books are completely disappearing. Remember in Fahrenheit 451 where the fireman's wife was addicted to interactive television and they sent fireman crews out to burn books? That mission has been largely accomplished in middle-class America and they didn't need the firemen. The interactive electronics took care of it without the violence,"-Finn Murphy, The Long Haul: A Trucker's Tales of Life on the Road
"Books are completely disappearing. Remember in Fahrenheit 451 where the fireman's wife was addicted to interactive television and they sent fireman crews out to burn books? That mission has been largely accomplished in middle-class America and they didn't need the firemen. The interactive electronics took care of it without the violence,"-Finn Murphy, The Long Haul: A Trucker's Tales of Life on the Road
"It’s too late now. The game’s been won by companies who don’t two shits about community character or decent jobs. Congratufuckinglations, America! We did the deal. Now we’ve got an unlimited supply of cheap commodities and unhealthy food and crumbling downtowns, no sense of place, and a permanent under class. Yay. The underclass isn’t relegated to urban ghettos either. It’s coast to coast and especially in between. Take US 50 west from Kansas City to Sacramento or US 6 from Chicago to California and you’ll see a couple thousand miles of corn, soybeans, and terminally ill towns. It looks like a scene from The Walking Dead. If there’s such a thing as the American Heartland, it has a stake through it."-Finn Murphy, The Long Haul: A Trucker's Tales of Life on the Road
"It’s too late now. The game’s been won by companies who don’t two shits about community character or decent jobs. Congratufuckinglations, America! We did the deal. Now we’ve got an unlimited supply of cheap commodities and unhealthy food and crumbling downtowns, no sense of place, and a permanent under class. Yay. The underclass isn’t relegated to urban ghettos either. It’s coast to coast and especially in between. Take US 50 west from Kansas City to Sacramento or US 6 from Chicago to California and you’ll see a couple thousand miles of corn, soybeans, and terminally ill towns. It looks like a scene from The Walking Dead. If there’s such a thing as the American Heartland, it has a stake through it."-Finn Murphy, The Long Haul: A Trucker's Tales of Life on the Road
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5. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing
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7. A Course Called America: Fifty States, Five Thousand Fairways, and the Search for the Great American Golf Course
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"People who don’t play golf pro to envy their golfing neighbors, admiring it as a nifty game you can play to a ripe old age. What they don’t understand is that we don’t keep playing because we can; we…"-Tom Coyne, A Course Called America: Fifty States, Five Thousand Fairways, and the Search for the Great American Golf Course
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10. Long Haul: Hunting the Highway Serial Killers
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11. The Long Haul: A Trucker's Tales of Life on the Road
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13. A Trucker's Tale: Wit, Wisdom, and True Stories from 60 Years on the Road
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