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Article: On the road: the godfather of American beatnikism, Jack Kerouac, rises again.(COUNTERCULTURE CORNER)
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- September 1, 2007
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THE ANNIVERSARY Jack Kerouac's On the Road, the novel that has inspired generations of road trips (and head trips) in the search for a new America, celebrates its 50th birthday this month. On the Road: Fiftieth Anniversary Edition (Viking).
THE LEGACY When Allen Ginsberg took this photograph in 1953, Kerouac was still a struggling writer. But even then he embodied the nonconformist spirit that, to this day, remains at the core of American bohemia. Photo [c] Allen Ginsberg Estate.
THE BOOTS Sal Paradise, the hero of On the Road, may have embarked on his own cross-country journey in a pair of huaraches, but Hogan's sturdy "Kerouac Boot"--part of the ...