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Book Review


Making and Selling Cars: Innovation and Change in the U.S. Automotive Industry. By James M. Rubenstein. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. x, 401 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-8018-6714-2.)
In 1988 James Flink, America's foremost automotive historian, wrote in The Automobile Age that the half century of economic development dominated by the motor vehicle ended in the early 1970s. But by the first years of the twenty-first century the car was back in the driver's seat, so to speak, with autos once again driving consumer spending. James M. Rubenstein's book charts the changes in the U.S. industry that are responsible for that comeback. . . .
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