The Longest Road is a Great Read 16,000 miles; 14 states; 4 months; 2 English setters; one 1962 Airstream Globetrotter named “Ethel.”
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ere’s your summer reading assignment: Philip Caputo’s The Longest Road: Overland in Search of American from Key West to the Arctic Ocean. Standing on the weatherworn shores of the Alaskan coast, Pulitzer Prize winning author Philip Caputo watched Inupiat Eskimo schoolchildren pledge allegiance to the same flag as the children of the Cuban immigrants in Key West, six thousand miles away. He began to wonder: How does the United States, as diverse as it is large, remain united? In 2011, in a nation mired in war abroad and rocked by the greatest
economic calamity since the Great Depression, Caputo loaded his wife and two English setters into an Airstream camper and hit the open road in search of answers. The book follows their epic four month road trip. The book is full of the author’s acute observations and his honest observations of our patchwork nation. Only an author like Caputo can make one extremely readable book that becomes a book of geography, sociology, marriage, science, racial relations, Native Americans… and so much more.
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Editor’s note: This is a winner! It’s travel, geography, history, economics, sociology. Oh, and there’s the personal story of a marriage surviving such a trip, too. I loved every word of it.
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