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In the Driver's Seat: The Automobile in American Literature and Popular Culture (Contributions in American Studies) [Hardcover]

Cynthia Golomb Dettelbach (Author)


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“The sometimes ill-defined area of American studies can surely use a book of this content and quality. Dettelbach writes with considerable skill in revealing the ways in which the cultural manifestations of modern American society reflect our fascination for, and relationship with, the automobile.... This is a timely book, with enough substance to recommend it to American studies and popular culture library collections.”–Choice

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  • Hardcover: 140 pages
  • Publisher: Greenwood Press (July 30, 1976)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0837185939
  • ISBN-13: 978-0837185934
  • Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,579,411 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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In describing the first car he ever owned, a '42 Plymouth, Mason Williams says, "I did a lot of firsts in that car, my first feel of big time, real life independence . . . my first sallies into neighboring towns, my first Sally in a back seat, and my first drunk." Read the first page
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damned old world, car functions, dollar shoe
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New York, Dos Passos, The Grapes of Wrath, Jay Gatsby, Richard Cory, Dean Moriarity, Rabbit Redux, The Great Gatsby, Tin Lizzie, William Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, James Agee, Moby Dick, Random House, Rolls Royce, The Big Money, Wise Blood, Bantam Books, Fire On The Moon, Gulf of Mexico, Summer Street, The Car Thief, Car Display, Charles Olson, Courtesy of the Oldsmobile Division
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