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Index
Cover
Praise
Description
About Paul Ingrassia
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: When Henry Met Sallie: Car Wars and Culture Clashes at the Dawn of America’s Automotive Age
Chapter 2: Zora, Zora, Zora: A Bolshevik Boy Escapes the Nazis and Saves the Great American Sports Car
Chapter 3: The 1959 Cadillacs: Style, Status, and the Race for the Biggest Tail Fins Ever
Chapter 4: Volkswagen’s Beetle and Microbus: The Long and Winding Road from Hitler to the Hippies
Chapter 5: The Chevy Corvair Makes Ralph Nader Famous, Lawyers Ubiquitous, and (Eventually) George W. Bush President of the United States
Chapter 6: Turning a “Librarian” into a “Sexpot”: The Youth Boom, the Sixties, and the Making of the Mustang
Chapter 7: The Brief But Glorious Reign of John Z. DeLorean and the Pontiac GTO
Chapter 8: Ohio Gozaimasu: Godzilla, Mr. Thunder, and How a Little Japanese Car Became America’s Big Ichiban
Chapter 9: The Chrysler Minivans: Baby Boomers Become Soccer Moms and a, um, Driving Force in American Politics
Chapter 10: The BMW 3 Series: The Rise of the Yuppies and the Road to Arugula
Chapter 11: The Jeep: From War to Suburbia, or How to Look Like You’re Going Rock Climbing When You’re Really Going to Nordstrom
Chapter 12: The Ford F-Series: Cowboys, Country Music, and Red-Meat Wheels for Red-State Americans
Chapter 13: An Innovative Car (the Prius), Its Insufferable Drivers (the Pious), and the Advent of a New Era
Afterword
Acknowledgments
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
Photographs
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