Jack Kerouac and the Contemporary West
FAIN: FB-12570-75
Harry R. Huebel
Texas A & M University, Kingsville (Kingsville, TX 78363-8202)
A study of Jack Kerouac's "New West" illustrates the way in which ideas affect social change, explores the question of responsibility of a myth maker for the consequences of his creation, and reveals the continuing importance of the West in the American imagination.