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"Hodges' story will be a pleasure for both scholarly and general interest readers. Highly recommended." -- Library Journal
"Taxi! is not only lively and erudite social history, it is probably the best account of taximen that is ever to be written... The cabby is fortunate, however, to have found his sociological poet laureate in Graham Hodges. In the taxi trade, we would have called this fascinating trip in his gregarious company, 'a great fare.'" -- Wall Street Journal
"In this informative, solid history, Graham Rusell Gao Hodges traces the story of the cab drivers from 1907, when the first metered taxis appeared on New York streets, to the present." -- Pete Hamill, New York Times Book Review
"The definitive book on New York cabs." -- Bob Minzesheimer, USA Today
"Hodges draws from driver memoirs, taxi publications, and the drivers' image as seen in the movies and on television. This is an interesting, readable study of the role of the taxis in New York's history, especially the struggles the drivers face." -- Choice
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"Hodges has written a marvelous, deeply empathetic and richly detailed account of a profession so indelibly inscribed in the daily experience and mythology of urban life as to be all but invisible to us. At once frantically hailed and frequently abused, taxi drivers epitomize -- in ways most of us grasp but routinely ignore -- the vivid human flux that is the lifeblood of city life. Thanks to the mercurial culture, shifting demographics, and glancingly contingent nature of the experience on both sides of the glass -- at once endlessly repeated and never twice the same -- cab drivers must rank among the least well-represented professionals in the hierarchy of urban life. Hodges has set out to remedy that, and has done so admirably." -- Ric Burns, director of the Emmy Award-winning series, New York: A Documentary Film
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