{"product_id":"don-t-make-me-pull-over-an-informal-history-of-the-family-road-trip-cd-9781508263791","title":"Don't Make Me Pull Over!","description":"\u003cb\u003eA lighthearted, entertaining trip down Memory Lane (\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e), \u003ci\u003e Don't Make Me Pull Over \u003c\/i\u003e offers a nostalgic look at the golden age of family road trips--before portable DVD players, smartphones, and Google Maps.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe birth of America's first interstate highways in the 1950s hit the gas pedal on the road trip phenomenon and families were soon streaming--sans seatbelts --to a range of sometimes stirring, sometimes wacky locations. In the days before cheap air travel, families didn't so much \u003ci\u003etake \u003c\/i\u003evacations as \u003ci\u003esurvive\u003c\/i\u003e them. Between home and destination lay thousands of miles and dozens of annoyances, and with his family Richard Ratay experienced all of them--from being crowded into the backseat with noogie-happy older brothers, to picking out a souvenir only to find that a better one might have been had at the\u003ci\u003e next\u003c\/i\u003e attraction, to dealing with a dad who didn't believe in bathroom breaks. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNow, decades later, Ratay offers an amiable guide...fun and informative (New York \u003ci\u003eNewsday\u003c\/i\u003e) that goes down like a cold lemonade on a hot summer's day (\u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e). In hundreds of amusing ways, he reminds us of what once made the Great American Family Road Trip so great, including twenty-foot land yachts, oasis-like Holiday Inn Holidomes, Smokey-spotting Fuzzbusters, twenty-eight glorious flavors of Howard Johnson's ice cream, and the thrill of finding a good buddy on the CB radio. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn informative, often hilarious family narrative  that] perfectly captures the love-hate relationship many have with road trips (\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e), \u003ci\u003eDon't Make Me Pull Over  \u003c\/i\u003ereveals how the family road trip came to be, how its evolution mirrored the country's, and why those magical journeys that once brought families together--for better and worse--have largely disappeared.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50387679019281,"sku":"CIN1508263795VG","price":22.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1508263795.jpg?v=1756291558","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/don-t-make-me-pull-over-an-informal-history-of-the-family-road-trip-cd-9781508263791","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}