Transcript: Profile: Forty-fifth anniversary of Jack Kerouac's "On The Road"

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Profile: Forty-fifth anniversary of Jack Kerouac's "On The Road"

Host: BOB EDWARDS Time: 11:00 AM-12:00 Noon

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When the novel "On The Road" was published 45 years ago, it caused a sensation. Jack Kerouac's style approximated jazz riffs. Its speed and urgency, a rebuke to the button-down America of the 1950s. As part of the series Present at the Creation, NPR's Renee Montagne has this story.

RENEE MONTAGNE reporting:

Up until September of 1957, about the only thing Jack Kerouac had to show for "On The Road" was a pile of rejection slips. ...

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