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From the Model T to the SUV, this title reveals that our vexed relationship with the automobile is nothing new - in fact, debates over whether cars are forces of good or evil in our world have raged for over a century, ever since the automobile was invented.

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"The work of Autophobia is precisely about looking again at what has been said, by whom and for what reason, and why none of the voluminous critiques of the car - by any number of estimable figures - seem to have much mattered. [Ladd] does this with equanimity and scholarly aplomb... and for a slender volume, this book has a lot under the hood." (Tom Vanderbilt, New York Times Book Review)"

Autophobia

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: 16/11/2008
      ISBN13: 9780226467412, 978-0226467412
      ISBN10: 0226467414
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      From the Model T to the SUV, this title reveals that our vexed relationship with the automobile is nothing new - in fact, debates over whether cars are forces of good or evil in our world have raged for over a century, ever since the automobile was invented.

      Trade Review
      "The work of Autophobia is precisely about looking again at what has been said, by whom and for what reason, and why none of the voluminous critiques of the car - by any number of estimable figures - seem to have much mattered. [Ladd] does this with equanimity and scholarly aplomb... and for a slender volume, this book has a lot under the hood." (Tom Vanderbilt, New York Times Book Review)"

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