| Book Review | Environmental History, 14.1

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Book Review

Motorized Obsessions: Life, Liberty, and the Small-Bore Engine. By Paul R. Josephson. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. xv+258 pp. Tables, notes, and index. Cloth $22.00.

There are more than 500 million internal-combustion engines in the United States today. Close to half are power road-going vehicles, while the balance drive lawn mowers, chainsaws, all-terrain vehicles (ATVs), personal watercraft (jet skis), and other equipment. In Motorized Obsessions, Paul Josephson offers a concise and very well-written survey of these small-bore devices. Though he does briefly examine the emergence of motorized tools like leaf blowers, mowers, and weed whackers, Josephson's main interest lies with those small-bore machines used for entertainment: ATVs, snowmobiles, and the like.

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