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Carjacked : the culture of the automobile and its effect on our lives / Catherine Lutz and Anne Lutz Fernandez.
- Title
- Carjacked : the culture of the automobile and its effect on our lives / Catherine Lutz and Anne Lutz Fernandez.
- Author
- Lutz, Catherine.
- Publication
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
- Supplementary Content
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- Additional Authors
- Fernandez, Anne Lutz.
- Description
- xiv, 254 p.; 25 cm.
- Summary
- "For most of the twentieth century, the public carried on a love affair with its cars, one that has not ended. Roads and highways stretched everywhere, gas prices stayed low, and ubiquitous car advertising made each year's new model look more desirable than the last. Eventually, there were more vehicles plying the roads than there were Americans licensed to drive them. Then, seemingly overnight, gas prices reached $4 per gallon; the housing bubble burst; and global warming became a more recognized and fear-some fact. Suddenly, we have many reasons to question our car-dependent lifestyle." "While the environmental crisis and gas price volatility have grabbed the headlines, other car-related problems are more wide-spread - from the shocking $14,000 per year that the average American family spends on its cars to the higher incidences of obesity and asthma among car owners to the 40,000 deaths and 2.5 million injuries sustained each year in crashes. In Carjacked, Catherine Lutz and Anne Lutz Fernandez reveal the dark side of our auto obsession and show us how to develop a cheaper, greener, and healthier relationship with our cars."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Ch. 1. The United States of Automobiles -- Ch. 2. Dream Car: Myth-making, American Values, and the Automobile -- Ch. 3. The Pitch: How They Sell -- Ch. 4. The Pitch: How We Buy -- Ch. 5. The Catch: What We Really Pay -- Ch. 6. The Catch: The Rich Get Richer -- Ch. 7. What Drives Us -- Ch. 8. Gettng Carsick -- Ch. 9. Full Metal Jacket: The Body Count -- Ch. 10. Conclusion: A Call to Action.
- ISBN
- 0230618138
- 9780230618138
- 0230102190
- 9780230102194
- LCCN
- 2009037724
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries