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| Summary: | From the Publisher: This is the story of how the automobile changed the essence of life in America. Both a general history of the automobile and a broad-ranging analysis of its cultural effects, the text addresses such topics as cars' inception as a mechanical curiosity and later a plaything for the well-to-do; Henry Ford and the rise of the machine age; competition and the evolving consumer in the 1920s; the development of roads and the accompanying road culture; religion, gender, courtship and sex; effects of the Great Depression and World War II; the 1950s golden age of automobiles and the emergence of youth culture; and how American car culture has been represented in film, song, poetry and literature. |
| Item Description: | "The book covers the automobile from inception and later a plaything for the well-to-do; Henry Ford and the machine age; competition in the 1920s; road culture; religion, gender, courtship and sex; Great Depression; World War II; 1950s and youth culture, hot rod and rock and roll; societal changes in the 1960s; and changes since 1980"--Provided by publisher. Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-239) and index |
| Physical Description: | XI, 248 S. Ill. 26 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780786440139 0786440139 |
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Acknowledgments
vii
Introduction: The Automobile, Its History and Influence, and Some Contradictions
1
1 —
Beginnings: From a Mechanical Curiosity to a Plaything for the Well-to-Do
9
European by Birth, American by Adoption
9
Technological Antecedents: The Bicycle
11
Compact Power: The Internal Combustion Engine
1 4
Choices Made: Competition from Steam Engines and Electric Motors
1 5
American Pioneers
1 8
Organization as Power
20
The Automobile for Better or Worse?
22
Music Galore
26
The Mechanical Arts and the Coming of the Machine Age
27
The Quest for Speed
30
2 —
The Inscrutable Henry Ford and the Rise of the Machine Age
32
From a Dearborn Farm to the World Stage
33
Frederick Winslow Taylor and One Best Way
36
The Genesis of Mass Production at Highland Park
36
The Flivver King
42
The Model T: What a Car!
44
Later Years: Hero or Anti-Hero?
46
Gone in Sixty Seconds: Joy-Riders and Criminals
47
3 —
The Rise of the Competition and the Consumer During the
1920s 54
Billy
Durant
and Silent Sloan
54
Kettering,
Earl, and Keeping the Customer Dissatisfied
56
The City of the Future and Dynamic Dayton of the
1930s 63
The Last of the Big Three: The Chrysler Corporation
64
The Independents
67
Innovation at the Periphery: The Cracker Jacker, Rickenbacker
68
The Jordan and Advertising the Dream
69
4 —
From Out of the Mud to On the Open Road
72
Which Came First: Good Roads or the Automobile?
72
x
Table of Contents
The Good Roads Movement
73
A Transcontinental Link: The Lincoln Highway
75
Federal Legislation and the Gas Tax
76
Two Lane Black Top, or Concrete If There Is Money
76
Auto Camping and Gypsying Across America
79
Fill
er
Up
80
Road Food
83
Divided Highways, Parkways, and Expressways
83
5 —
Religion, Courtship, Sex, and Women Drivers
87
An Answer to Prayer or Something to Pray About?
87
Sex in the Back Seat
91
Those Women Drivers!
93
Cars as Homes
96
6 —
The Interwar Years: The Great Depression, Aerodynamics, and Cars
of the Olympian Age
101
Olympian Automobiles of the
1930s 1 02
Streamlining and the Chrysler Airflop
1 08
Sitdown, the Coming of the United Auto Workers, and the Battle of
the Overpass
112
The Poetic Response to the Automobile
114
Singing the Blues about Automobiles and Life
115
Filming on the Race Track and
Soundstage 118
7 —
World War II and the Reconversion Economy: No Time for Sergeants or
Aspiring Automobile Manufacturers
119
Little Bo Peep Has Lost Her Jeep...
121
Wartime Labor: Sacrifices and Selfishness
124
Gas Rationing
124
The Black Market
:
Chiseled Gas
127
The Reconversion Economy and a Man s Dream
1 30
8 —
The Golden Age of the Automobile: The
1950s
in America
1 33
The Automobile and Civil Rights
135
Hot Rod
138
Sports Cars on American Tracks, and The Red Car
1 40
Some Critics Surface: Safety and the Environment
143
Dealers, Good and Bad
146
The UAW, the Big Three, and Pattern Bargaining
149
The Cars of the Golden Era
1 50
The
1958
Recession and European Competition
153
The Volkswagen Bug
1 54
Cars and Rock and Roll
155
Table
of
Contents
xi
Film: The Rebels
1 58
A Night at the Drive-In
160
On the Road
161
The Coming of the Interstates
1 62
Summing Up the Glorious
1950s 1 63
9 -
The Go-Go Years,
1959-1973 164
The
Microbus,
Cars, and the Hippies
1 64
The Cadillac and the Establishment
1 67
An Age of Ambivalence
1 69
Harry Crews and the White Trash in His Novel Car
1 70
Ralph Nader and Unsafe at Any Speed
1 71
Government Regulation: Safety and the Environment
1 73
From a Brief Affair with Economy Vehicles to the Emergence
of the Muscle Car
1 75
California Dreaming
1 78
Oil Shock I
178
Japanese Automobiles Come in a Big Way to America
1 80
James Bond, Steve McQueen, and the Action Thriller
1 81
Mobile Lovemaking
1 84
Summing Up the Sixties
1 84
10-
The Automobile World Upside Down,
1980s
to the Present
1 85
Rivethead and the Quality Cat
1 86
The Automobile and Contemporary Art
1 89
Lessons Not Learned
1 89
Trucks, Sport Utility Vehicles, and Crossovers
1 90
The Car Hobby: Car Crazy
1 91
Cars and Crime: The Drive-By
1 94
NASCAR Nation
1 94
Saturn, Chrysler, and Germans in the New South
1 97
New Technologies
1 99
Automobiles, Women, Eros, and Film
201
Poetry, Women, and Passion
202
Where Does the Automobile in American Life Go from Here?
206
Epilogue: The Automobile and One American Life
208
Chapter Notes
211
Select Bibliography
231
Index
241
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