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The Car: The Rise and Fall of the Machine that Made the Modern World

byBryan Appleyard

A spirited, insightful exploration of our favorite machine and it’s cultural impact on society over the past one hundred and fifty years. The Car combines archival evidence, political analysis, and reconstructed events, allowing the evidence to complicate easy judgments and familiar explanations. Seen through the lens of history and political science, The Car explains not only what happened, but why competing interpretations still matter. By the end, the rise and fall of the machine that made the modern world emerges as a layered story of competing motives, unintended results, and choices made under pressure.

Publisher

Pegasus Books

Publication date

2022

Format

Print edition

Pages

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ISBN

9781639362301