A richly illustrated history of the first cross-country auto trips exposes the role of these well-publicized jaunts in changing the way the public felt about this new technology. (Transportation) (view table of contents)

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Product Description: Coast to Coast by Automobile engagingly explores the challenges met and overcome by the first motorists to drive across America. Because automobiles were viewed with considerable interest and also considerable skepticism in this period, the extensive publicity that these trips generated played an important role in establishing the practicability, reliability, and widespread appeal of automobiles in early twentieth-century America...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Chronicling the development of midwestern community automobile manufacture prior to the Great Depression, a detailed volume identifies five early car makers and how they contributed to the automobile industry. UP.