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Stealing Cars: Technology & Society from the Model T to the Gran Torino

Contributor(s): Heitmann, John A (Author), Morales, Rebecca H (Author)

ISBN: 9781421412979

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press

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Pub Date: May 1, 2014

Dewey: 364.16286292

LCCN: 2013032111

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents

Target Age Group: 18 to UP

Physical Info: 0.90" H x 9.10" L x 6.30" W ( 1.00 lbs) 232 pages

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Description: Drawing on sources that include interviews, government documents, patents, sociological and psychological studies, magazines, monographs, scholarly periodicals, film, fiction, and digital gaming, Heitmann and Morales tell a story that highlights both human creativity and some of the paradoxes of American life.

Brief description: Rebecca H. Morales holds a Ph.D. in urban and regional planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is a former curator at the San Diego Automotive Museum.

Review Quotes: This volume tells a social and cultural history of auto theft -- honest -- and it does so remarkably well.
--James Donnelly, Hemmings Motor News

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