Autophobia: Love and Hate in the Automotive Age

摘要

Some books are not well-served by the titles their publishers give them, and not because the titles don't necessarily invite closer inspection and possible purchase. Rather, it is because the true scope of the book is not fully revealed. This is such a book. Instead of "Love and Hate in the Automotive Age"-which invites many interpretations-the subtitle for Brian Ladd's work should really be taken from a key sentence in his introduction: "This history tries to capture the voices of some of the snobs, romantics, iconoclasts, and passionate idealists who denounced the plague of automobiles."