America On Wheels

A collection of trivia about automobiles and the men behind them.

Ads That Put America On Wheels By Eric Dregni & Karl Hagstrom Miller. Discover the creative history of automotive advertising from the early 1900s through today. Fully illustrated with original period advertisements revealing some of the greatest American cars and advertising campaigns of all time. Discusses the history of print advertising in relation to the evolution of the automobile and the auto industry and changing customer expectations. Sftbd., 8 1/4"x 10 5/8", 128 pgs., 40 b&w ill., 80 color.

Includes Idaho, Iowa, Montana, Oregon, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Washington, and Wyoming.

Includes Arkansas, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Texas.

Pure Americana, "laced with rare photographs, advertisements, period postcards, cartoons, and drawings from the Library of Congress, Harrah's seminal car collection, and the archives of 'Road and Track.'"--Jacket.

Examines the impact of the automobile on American society since the end of World War Two in the areas of mass transit, development of the United Auto Workers, rise of suburbia, auto racing, and the automobile's relationship to the youth culture.

Pure Americana, "laced with rare photographs, advertisements, period postcards, cartoons, and drawings from the Library of Congress, Harrah's seminal car collection, and the archives of 'Road and Track.'"--Jacket.