Auto mania : cars, consumers, and the environment

Author

Tom McCarthy

Call Number

• H 338.476292 M1236 (CEN)

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Publication Information

New Haven : Yale University Press, c2007.

Physical Description

xx, 347 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Contents

• Acknowledgments
• Introduction : The great experiment
• arrogance of wealth
• Foresight and emotion
• monstrously big thing
• industrial epic
• death and afterlife of automobiles
• Cadillacs and community
• Disenchanted with Detroit
• If we can put a man on the Moon...
• one who got it
• Out of my dead hands
• Small was beautiful
• riddle of the sport utility vehicle
• Epilogue
• Notes
• Index.