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Auto mania : cars, consumers, and the environment / Tom McCarthy.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McCarthy, Tom, 1959-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Automobile industry and trade--United States--History--20th century.
- Automobile industry and trade.
- Automobiles--Environmental aspects--United States--History--20th century.
- Automobiles.
- Consumer behavior--United States--History--20th century.
- Consumer behavior.
- History.
- Automobiles--Environmental aspects.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 347 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2007]
- Contents:
- Introduction: The Great Experiment xiii
- 1 The Arrogance of Wealth 1
- 2 Foresight and Emotion 16
- 3 A Monstrously Big Thing 30
- 4 An Industrial Epic 55
- 5 The Death and Afterlife of Automobiles 77
- 6 Cadillacs and Community 99
- 7 Disenchanted with Detroit 130
- 8 If We Can Put a Man on the Moon 148
- 9 The One Who Got It 176
- 10 Out of My Dead Hands 193
- 11 Small Was Beautiful 207
- 12 The Riddle of the sport Utility Vehicle 231.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-332) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780300110388
- 0300110383
- OCLC:
- 123029624
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