Howard Zinn argues that the telling of America in terms of heroes and their victims, which entails "the quiet acceptance of conquest and murder in the name of progress," functions as "only one aspect of a certain approach to history, in which the past is told from the point of view of governments, conquerors, diplomats, leaders." If On the Road is about defining America, it is also about staging an intervention into official definitions of history and nationhood.
-Penny Vlagopoulos. "Rewriting America" in Jack Kerouac. On the Road: The Original Scroll. (60-61).
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