All Roads Lead to the American City

Peter Swirski is Associate Professor of American Literature and Director of American Studies at the University of Hong Kong.

Without getting caught up in a limited problematic or a narrow theoretical jargon, All Roads Lead to the American City taps the insights of many fields in order to show how intimately bound up the reality and the image of the road and the city are with the American sense of the nation. The authors move smoothly from text to history to synthesis, and back again. Taken as a whole, it makes a contribution to American Studies. -- David Grant, Grant MacEwan College