Auto Mania : Cars, Consumers, and the

The twentieth-century American experience with the automobile has much to tell us about the relationship between consumer capitalism and the environment, Tom McCarthy contends. Spanning the automobile's history, this timely book is the first to relate consumer behavior to the wider environmental impact of cars-from raw materials and manufacturing to use and disposal. It whose that America's disappointing response to automobile-related environmental issues stems from the interplay of politics, economics, and desire. Book jacket.

Tom McCarthy is associate professor, History Department, United States Naval Academy.

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction: The Great Experiment	p. xiii
The Arrogance of Wealth	p. 1
Foresight and Emotion	p. 16
A Monstrously Big Thing	p. 30
An Industrial Epic	p. 55
The Death and Afterlife of Automobiles	p. 77
Cadillacs and Community	p. 99
Disenchanted with Detroit	p. 130
If We Can Put a Man on the Moon	p. 148
The One Who Got It	p. 176
Out of My Dead Hands	p. 193
Small Was Beautiful	p. 207
The Riddle of the Sport Utility Vehicle	p. 231
Epilogue	p. 253
Notes	p. 267
Index	p. 333
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