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摘要

First, the reviewer alleges that the book attributes the transformation of the city street "to a powerful coalition of industry representatives and elite automobile clubs" which "hijacked a series of urban transportation-safety conferences convened by Commerce secretary Herbert Hoover." In fact, this very small but important episode, confined in the book to six pages (187-93), describes no hijacking, just perfectly legal interest-group politics of the usual variety. This event was not important enough to merit any mention in the summary of the book's argument in the introduction.