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America on wheels : the first 100 years : 1896-1996 / by Frank Coffey and Joseph Layden.
- Title
- America on wheels : the first 100 years : 1896-1996 / by Frank Coffey and Joseph Layden.
- Author
- Coffey, Frank.
- Publication
- Los Angeles : General Pub. Group, c1996.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Layden, Joseph, 1959-
- Description
- 304 p. : ill. (some col.); 29 cm.
- Summary
- Pure Americana, "laced with rare photographs, advertisements, period postcards, cartoons, and drawings from the Library of Congress, Harrah's seminal car collection, and the archives of 'Road and Track.'"--Jacket.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Note
- "The companion to the PBS special."
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 298) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Driving force -- The horseless carriage -- A car for the multitudes -- Going in style -- Labor pains -- Social mobility -- The war machine -- The post war boom -- The open road -- Lean and mean -- Car wars -- Trouble in paradise -- The empire strikes back -- The road ahead.
- ISBN
- 1881649806
- LCCN
- ^^^96017682^
- OCLC
- 34546970
- SCSB-11048320
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library