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100 1 $aHeitmann, John Alfred.
245 14 $aThe automobile and American life /$cJohn A. Heitmann.
260 $aJefferson, N.C. :$bMcFarland & Co.,$cc2009.
300 $axi, 248 p. :$bill. ;$c26 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 211-239) and index.
505 00 $a$t Introduction: The Automobile, Its History and Influence, and Some Contradictions -- $g 1. $t Beginnings: From a Mechanical Curiosity to a Plaything for the Well-to-Do -- $t European by Birth, American by Adoption -- $t Technological Antecedents: The Bicycle -- $t Compact Power: The Internal Combustion Engine -- $t Choices Made: Competition from Steam Engines and Electric Motors -- $t American Pioneers -- $t Organization as Power -- $t The Automobile for Better or Worse? -- $t Music Galore -- $t The Mechanical Arts and the Coming of the Machine Age -- $t The Quest for Speed -- $g 2. $t The Inscrutable Henry Ford and the Rise of the Machine Age -- $t From a Dearborn Farm to the World Stage -- $t Frederick Winslow Taylor and "One Best Way" -- $t The Genesis of Mass Production at Highland Park -- $t The Flivver King -- $t The Model T: What a Car! -- $t Later Years: Hero or Anti-Hero? -- $t Gone in Sixty Seconds: Joy-Riders and Criminals -- $g 3. $t The Rise of the Competition and the Consumer During the 1920s -- $t Billy Durant and "Silent" Sloan -- $t Kettering, Earl, and "Keeping the Customer Dissatisfied" -- $t The City of the Future and Dynamic Dayton of the 1930s -- $t The Last of the Big Three: The Chrysler Corporation -- $t The Independents -- $t Innovation at the Periphery: The Cracker Jacker, Rickenbacker -- $t The Jordan and Advertising the Dream -- $g 4. $t From Out of the Mud to On the Open Road -- $t Which Came First: Good Roads or the Automobile? -- $t The Good Roads Movement -- $t A Transcontinental Link: The Lincoln Highway -- $t Federal Legislation and the Gas Tax -- $t Two Lane Black Top, or Concrete If There Is Money -- $t Auto Camping and "Gypsying" Across America -- $t Fill'er Up -- $t Road Food -- $t Divided Highways, Parkways, and Expressways -- $g 5. $t Religion, Courtship, Sex, and Women Drivers -- $t An Answer to Prayer or Something to Pray About? -- $t Sex in the Back Seat -- $t Those Women Drivers! -- $t Cars as Homes --
505 80 $a$g 6. $t The Interwar Years: The Great Depression, Aerodynamics, and Cars of the Olympian Age -- $t Olympian Automobiles of the 1930s -- $t Streamlining and the Chrysler "Airflop" -- $t Sitdown, the Coming of the United Auto Workers, and the Battle of the Overpass -- $t The Poetic Response to the Automobile -- $t Singing the Blues about Automobiles and Life -- $t Filming on the Race Track and Soundstage -- $g 7. $t World War II and the Reconversion Economy: No Time for Sergeants or Aspiring Automobile Manufacturers -- $t "Little Bo Peep Has Lost Her Jeep..." -- $t Wartime Labor: Sacrifices and Selfishness -- $t Gas Rationing -- $t The Black Market: "Chiseled Gas" -- $t The Reconversion Economy and a Man"s Dream -- $g 8. $t The Golden Age of the Automobile: The 1950s in America -- $t The Automobile and Civil Rights -- $t Hot Rod -- $t Sports Cars on American Tracks, and The Red Car -- $t Some Critics Surface: Safety and the Environment -- $t Dealers, Good and Bad -- $t The UAW, the Big Three, and Pattern Bargaining -- $t The Cars of the Golden Era -- $t The 1958 Recession and European Competition -- $t The Volkswagen Bug -- $t Cars and Rock and Roll -- $t Film: The Rebels -- $t A Night at the Drive-In -- $t On the Road -- $t The Coming of the Interstates -- $t Summing Up the Glorious 1950s --
505 80 $a$g 9. $t The Go-Go Years, 1959-1973 -- $t The Microbus, Cars, and the Hippies -- $t The Cadillac and the Establishment -- $t An Age of Ambivalence -- $t Harry Crews and the "White Trash" in His Novel Car -- $t Ralph Nader and Unsafe at Any Speed -- $t Government Regulation: Safety and the Environment -- $t From a Brief Affair with Economy Vehicles to the Emergence of the Muscle Car -- $t California Dreaming -- $t Oil Shock I -- $t Japanese Automobiles Come in a Big Way to America -- $t James Bond, Steve McQueen, and the Action Thriller -- $t Mobile Lovemaking -- $t Summing Up the Sixties --
505 80 $a$g 10. $t The Automobile World Upside Down, 1980s to the Present --$t Rivethead and the Quality Cat -- $t The Automobile and Contemporary Art -- $t Lessons Not Learned -- $t Trucks, Sport Utility Vehicles, and Crossovers -- $t The Car Hobby: Car Crazy -- $t Cars and Crime: The Drive-By -- $t NASCAR Nation -- $t Saturn, Chrysler, and Germans in the New South -- $t New Technologies -- $t Automobiles, Women, Eros, and Film -- $t Poetry, Women, and Passion -- $t Where Does the Automobile in American Life Go from Here? -- $t Epilogue: The Automobile and One American Life.
520 $a"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.
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