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Katie Folkes
Bourdon 2:00 MWF
Car Culture Book Review
In his 1975 book, The Car Culture, James Flink looks at the impact of the automobile technique on the many facets of society. The Car Culture presents a useful and comprehensive analysis of the rise and fall of what Flink refers to as "automobility" in America. Flink concurs that the invention of the automobile had a tremendous impact on society as a whole and changed the inner workings of the social machine forever.
Flink breaks The Car Culture down into different segments to clarify how the invention of the automobile affected each segment of society. The sections Flink focuses on the most are economic, social, moral and environmental aspects of the American society. ... Although Flink seems to have exhausting amounts of research from trade journals and news publications, the display of the information about the early days of the industry is repetitive and over exaggerated. Flink offers the controversial idea that the automobile has had a greater impact upon life in the twentieth century than did the Frederick Jackson Turner thesis in the nineteenth century.
Approximate Word count = 880
Approximate Pages = 3.5
(250 words per page double spaced)
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