A twelve-lane behemoth cutting through the least scenic parts of the Garden State\, the New Jersey Turnpike may lack the romantic allure of highways like Route 66\, but it might just be a mo re accurate symbol of American life\, representing the nation at both its best and its worst.
\nWhen Angus Gillespie and Michael Rockland wrot e Looking for America on the New Jersey Turnpike in 1989\, they simply wan ted to express their fascination with a road that many commuters regarded with annoyance or indifference. Little did they expect that it would be ha iled as a classic\, listed by the state library alongside works by Whitman and Fitzgerald as one of the ten best books ever written about New Jersey or by a New Jerseyan.
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