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How the Car Changed Life

By Ruth Brandon
September 2002
Macmillan, UK
ISBN: 0-333-76666-0
467 pages, Illustrated, 6 ¼ x 9 ½"
$37.50 hardcover

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This intriguing book traces the car's momentous journey as it shapes the 20th Century, and sets terms for the 21st. Starting from the Paris of the first road races, the author travels to Ford's Detroit and around the automobile suburbs. She journeys to the Berlin of Hitler's Volkswagen dream, into the streamlined future designed to whiz the Thirties out of depression, to the Belfast field where John DeLorean's fantasy briefly came to life, and end in automobile apotheosis-the Los Angeles Freeways. Along the way, she pauses to consider the car's effect on every aspect of modern life. For the history of the car is far more than a catalog of mechanical wonders-it encompasses urban planning and the environment, politics, gender wars, advertising design, music, fashion and art. "Brandon has chosen a fascinating subject and written a book that rises to it superbly." -Sunday London Times.

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