Americans on the Road: From Autocamp to Motel, 1910-1945In 'Americans on the Road', Warren James Belasco uses travel magazines, trade journals, and diaries to look at what Americans actually did 'with' their cars rather than try to judge what cars did 'to' Americans. Belasco begins with the earliest days of automobile travel in America. |
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