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American Automobile, The A Brief History by John B. Rae Hard cover
American Automobile, The A Brief History by John B. Rae hard cover
The American Automobile A Brief History
John B. Rae
Hard Cover
265 Pages
Copyright 1965
Contents
ILLUSTRATIONS
TABLESXV
I. THE BIRTH OF THE AUTOMOBILE
2. THE HORSELESS CARRIAGE17
3. GROWING PAINS33
4. THE ASSEMBLY-LINE REVOLUTION53
5. WAR AND READJUSTMENT69
6. COMING OF AGE87
7. PROSPERITY AND ADVERSITY105
8. THE AUTOMOBILE AND THE NEW DEALI 23
9. ARSENAL OF DEMOCRACY143
10. PEACE HAS ITS PROBLEMS161
II. THE BROAD HIGHWAY179
12. TAIL FINS AND COMPACTS199
13. METROPOLIS ON THE FREEWAY219
14. RETROSPECT AND PROSPECT237
IMPORTANT DATES 247
SUGGESTED READING249
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS255
INDEX 257
The automobile has been the great vehicle of American civilization in the twentieth century. Seldom has a people found in technology so appropriate, so versatile, and so pervasive an expression. Originating in Europe, the automobile acquired novel forms in the United States. Here within a half-century, although it still remained in most of Europe a toy for the few, it had become a new social force touching everybodyan expression of and an instrument for speedy movement around and across the continent and up the social scale.
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