Archive for Items Categorized 'Other Genres', only excerpts shown, click title for full entry.
Car Guys vs. Bean Counters: The Battle for the Soul of American Business
by Bob Lutz
Lutz is the last of the Motor City’s “bad boys.” Not bad like a De Lorean though the two of them shared a passion for cars but rather in the sense of being cut from the same cloth as a Lee Iacocca—a guy with gasoline in his veins who evaluates cars based on whether or not they’ll sell rather than how much they’ll cost to build.
Corporate Power: American Democracy, and the Automobile Industry
by Stan Luger
The introduction to this book advises that it has grown out of a dissertation the author submitted to the University of New York. It is a scholarly study of the history of the power and influence of the automobile industry on governmental policies and the interactions of government and industry
Fast Food: Roadside Restaurants in the Automobile Age
by John A Jakle & Keith A Sculle
The whole concept of “the roadside” as an entity in and of itself, let alone as a topic deserving of serious thought, still seems to be outside of the field of view of the general motoring public. Books like this seek to give visibility to the complex and often hidden influences of the automobile on culture and everyday life.
Route 66: The Empires of Amusement
by Thomas Arthur Repp (Photographer)
It is reassuring to note that Repp’s book was received positively by the inner circle of established Route 66 writers such as Michael Wallis or Jim Ross. Sort of like going to an ethnic restaurant and seeing “natives” there. Presumably they know what’s what and their presence legitimizes the joint.
Harry Truman’s Excellent Adventure: The True Story of a Great American Road Trip
by Matthew Algeo
Road trips, and the books wherein the tales of each are told, continually attract and delight readers. First-person stories from writers like William Least-Heat Moon with his Blue Highways and John Steinbeck telling of hisTravels with Charley have entertained, informed, and motivated others to go exploring.
The Longest Ride: My 10-Year 500,000 Mile Motorcycle Journey
by Emilio Scotto
Scotto must be the bravest man on the planet. In 1985, with no credit cards and just $306 in cash in his pocket, the Argentine adventurer climbed aboard his 1980 Honda Goldwing and set out on a 10-year journey to discover the world.
Jupiter’s Travels: Four Years Around the World on a Triumph
by Ted Simon
It takes a special kind of wanderlust to travel overland around the world. Even more so if it is 1973 and you’re traveling on a Triumph Tiger 100 motorcycle.
Peking to Paris, 100th Anniversary Edition
by Luigi Barzini
Barzini was a newspaper reporter by profession and war correspondent, but more than that—as this book attests—he’s a terrific storyteller with a terrific story to tell. He was along on every one of the 8,000 miles on two roadless continents in 1907.
Che’s Chevrolet, Fidel’s Oldsmobile: On the Road in Cuba
by Richard Schweid
A popular urban myth says that Cuba is filled with pristine examples of American cars from the 1950s and, that when Fidel Castro finally dies, a wave of these befinned wonders will roll up on our shores. Schweid traveled throughout the island nation researching its automotive history.
Vintage Travel Guides
Navigation systems in cars are here to stay. They can be a real boon to getting where you need to go on time. But, for the less time constrained, there is another way of finding your way around new environs. True, it isn’t as quick and easy as plugging in your destination and then mindlessly following the synthesized voice of your mechanized navigator. However, it is more fun, more romantic and much more stylish to plan your motoring trips with the aid of vintage travel guides.
A Century of Automotive Style, 100 Years of American Car Design
by Michael Lamm & Dave Holls
When first released in 1996 the book garnered raves from everywhere and everyone. The automotive media heaped on still more praise—and now it is released as a searchable DVD.
Two Wheels Through Terror: Diary of a South American Motorcycle Odyssey
by Glen Heggstad
Less than three weeks after the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, Heggstad left southern California on a motorcycle trip. His intent was to ride through Central and South America to Ushuaia in Tierra del Fuego, the southernmost city in the world, and then return back home again.
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