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When Markku Henriksson was growing up in Finland, the song "(Get Your Kicks on) Route 66" was one of only two he could recognize - in English or Finnish. It was not until 1989 that Henriksson would catch his first glimpse of the legendary highway. It was enough to lure Henriksson four years later to the second international Route 66 festival in Flagstaff. There he realized that Route 66 was the perfect basis for a multidisciplinary American Studies course, one that he has been teaching at the University of Helsinki ever since. Forming the soul of this work - and yielding a more holistic and complex picture than any previous study - are Henriksson's 1996 (east to west) and 2002 (west to east) journeys along the full length of the Route and his mastery of the literature and film that illuminate the Route's place in Americana.



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Markku Henriksson

Markku Henriksson is the McDonnel Douglas Chair for American Studies at the University of Helsinki, Finland. He was born in Helsinki in 1949. In addition to studying at the University of Helsinki, he was also studied at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, and at the University of Texas at Austin. He has a Doctorate in Social Sciences from the University of Helsinki, and an honorary doctorate of Lettres from the York University, Toronto, Canada. His books covers a wide range of North American topics from Native Americans to Highways.



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