TY - JOUR
AU - Gartman, David
AB - Book Reviews 583 University Press, 2007. xx, 347 pp. $32.50, to environmental and public health, but car isbn 978-0-300-11038-8.) drivers do not emerge as mere innocents. Af- ter the environmental movement of the 1970s, The economic crisis that threatens today’s many consumers sought out suvs, with sales American automobile industry is emblem- of so-called light-duty vehicles (suvs and pick- atic of the environmental crises caused by ups) rising dramatically over the past twenty the automobile itself. Global warming, urban years, accounting for half of the new vehicle air pollution, oil dependence and depletion, market before the recent spike in gasoline sprawl, noise, and more are the price we have prices. For many, suvs are the quintessential paid for too many cars being driven too many expression of Thorstein Veblen’s conspicuous miles. consumption. Environmental and safety con- Tom McCarthy, in a well-written and ex- cerns were ignored in the quest for status and tensively researched book, joins a chorus of feelings of power. auto industry scholars in tackling the iconic In a book of this scope and with a topic of consumer industry of the twentieth century. this importance, many will yearn for more. For He presents a history of 
TI - Republic of Drivers: A Cultural History of Automobility in America. By Cotton Seiler. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. x, 230 pp. Cloth, $52.00, ISBN 978-0-226-74563-3. Paper, $19.00, ISBN 978-0-226-74564-0.)
JF - The Journal of American History
DO - 10.1093/jahist/96.2.583
DA - 2009-09-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/republic-of-drivers-a-cultural-history-of-automobility-in-america-by-HCMIdaU0LC
SP - 583
EP - 584
VL - 96
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -