| Book Review | The Michigan Historical Review, 35.1

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Tom McCarthy. Auto Mania: Cars, Consumers, and the Environment. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007. Pp. 347. Epilogue. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Cloth, $32.50.

In light of the recent financial struggles of the U.S. automobile industry, the massive fluctuation of gasoline prices, and growing concerns about pollution and global warming, Tom McCarthy's Auto Mania is a timely book. McCarthy places the extensive environmental impact of automobiles in the context of American consumers' ongoing love affair with their cars. McCarthy argues that "the potent mix of practical and symbolic satisfactions that automobiles provide, as well as the significant economic stakes they represent for both consumers and producers" have frustrated efforts to address automobile-related environmental problems (p. xiii).

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