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Machines of Youth : America's Car Obsession

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2018

1 Online-Ressource (234 pages)

Englisch

Includes bibliographical references and index

Print version: Cross, Gary S : Machines of Youth : America’s Car Obsession. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press,c2018

978-0-226-34178-1 ( : electronic bk.)

978-0-226-34164-4 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

OCoLC: 1029547385     

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LOC-SH: Automobiles -- Social aspects -- United States ; Teenage automobile drivers -- United States ; Automobiles-Social aspects-United States ; Teenage automobile drivers-United States

Intro -- Contents -- 1. First in America: Coming of Age in Automobiles -- 2. Customizing and Souping-Up in the 1930s and '40s -- 3. Hot Rod Wars: Youth, Their Elders, and Defining Maturity on the Road -- 4. Cruising and Parking: The Peer Culture of Teen Automobility, 1950-70 -- 5. Greasers and Their Rods: Two Generations of Exclusion and Pride -- 6. Low, Slow, and Latino -- 7. Last Stand of the Cruiser -- 8. The Slow and Nostalgic versus the Fast and the Furious -- 9. The End of Youth Car Culture? -- Notes -- Index