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What is the most destructive, dangerous, and wasteful device ever invented under the banner of Progress? It's sitting in your garage. What's it doing there? How did it get there? Find out in this first of a kind critical history of how the automobile unhinged a city, a state, a nation, during the "American Century."

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The Sinclair Press and Movement Publishing, Movement Publishing
Language
English
Pages
514

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Subjects
American history, transportation history, U.S. automotive history, automobile, American rail history, Transportation
People
Henry Ford, Billy Durant, Alfred Sloan, Harold Wills, Walter Chrysler, Henry Ford II, Lee Iaccoca
Times
20th Century America

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1. 1899: The Story So Far. p. 3
Chapter 2. 1900: Baseline Port Huron. p. 40
Chapter 3. 1901-1910: Conceit. p. 76
Chapter 4. 1911-1920: A Code Word for Happiness. p. 115
Chapter 5. 1921-1930: The Hour of Bedlam. p. 156
Chapter 6. 1931-1940: This So-Called Depression. p. 198
Chapter 7. 1941-1950: There's a Bright Day Dawning. p. 241
Chapter 8. 1951-1960: You Don't Drive It, You Aim It. p. 284
Chapter 9. 1961-1970: Infinitely Nearer Utopia. p. 326
Chapter 10. 1971-1980: It's a Necessity. p. 368
Chapter 11. 1981-1990: Leave the Real World Behind. p. 410
Chapter 12. 1991-2000: Remorse. p. 452

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Port Huron, MI, USA
Copyright Date
2018

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TL24.M5B35 2019

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Paperback and Kindle
Number of pages
514
Dimensions
9 x 6 x 1.75 inches
Weight
1.5 pounds

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OL26882309M
ISBN 13
9781513652993

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