Hell on Wheels: The Promise and Peril of America's Car Culture, 1900-1940

by David Blanke

The emergence of the automobile on the American scene represented many things--excitement, freedom, progress-but also danger, death, and injury.

In this unique examination of America's changing cultural perceptions of the car, David Blanke tells how the automobile pulled society in two contradictory emotional directions: exhilaration in personal mobility versus anxiety over public safely. By investigating who owned cars, how they drove,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700615156
• ISBN13: 9780700615155
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 1.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.0"