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| Preface | |
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| Setting the Stage | |
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| The First Horseless Carriages | |
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| The Petroleum Industry: Fueling the Flame | |
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| A Growing Automobile Industry: From Model T to Model A | |
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| The Highway Infrastructure | |
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| The Car Culture's Impact on Mass Transit | |
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| The Automobile Changes America | |
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| A Laborious Reconversion | |
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| The War Effort Constrains the Car Culture | |
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| "Futurama": Cars Get the Green Light Again? | |
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| The World of Autoworkers | |
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| The Postwar Years of the Car Culture | |
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| Ford Motor Company: Administrative Dark Ages | |
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| A Revitalized Industry | |
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| Changes in Design | |
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| The Automobile, Suburbia, and the Reshaping of American Landscapes | |
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| The Decline of Mass Transit | |
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| The Rise of Suburbia | |
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| The Centrality of the Automobile | |
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| The Suburban Nightmare | |
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| The Suburban Dream | |
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| The Fabulous Fifties and the Soaring Sixties | |
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| Automobiles and the Youth Culture | |
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| A Vehicle for Freedom | |
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| "Dream Cars" of the 1950s | |
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| "Muscle Cars" of the 1960s | |
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| Automobile Racing: Stock Cars and Dragsters | |
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| Cars, Kids, and Rock and Roll | |
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| Cars, Drive-ins, and the Movies | |
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| The Birth of Fast Food | |
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| Family Vacations: The Motel Culture | |
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| The Automobile, Mass Transit, and Public Policy | |
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| Toll Roads | |
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| A National Highway Program | |
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| Opposition to the Interstates | |
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| A Conspiracy against Mass Transit? | |
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| Europe Embraces Mass Transit | |
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| Stagnation of Mass Transit in America | |
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| The Automobile Culture under Siege | |
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| A Nation Addicted to Automobiles | |
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| Paying for the Automobile Habit | |
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| Sprawl and Mall: Environmental Pollution | |
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| The Automotive Assault on Cities | |
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| Critics of the Car Culture Take Action | |
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| The Automobile Industry under Siege | |
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| Atrophy in the Auto Industry | |
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| Insolent Chariot Makers | |
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| Dealers versus Consumers | |
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| Salvos against the Auto Industry | |
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| Turmoil on the Shop Floor | |
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| Competition from Abroad | |
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| Dwindling Natural Resources | |
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| A Remarkable Revival | |
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| The Sociology of the Car Culture Changes | |
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| Chrysler: Emerging from the Slump | |
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| Ford: Challenging for the Lead Again | |
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| General Motors: A Search for Identity | |
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| An Age of "World Cars" | |
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| New Reversals in Detroit | |
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| Reversals in Tokyo | |
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| The Second American Revival and Alternative Driving Machines | |
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| A Remarkable Transformation | |
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| The Future of the Automobile | |
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| The Future of Mass Transit | |
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| The Nightmare Commute | |
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| The Reshaping of Urban Space | |
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| New Sources of Power? | |
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| Homes on Wheels | |
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| Safer at Any Speed | |
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| Visions of the Future | |
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| Index | |