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Autographed Book and Lunch or Dinner With Paul Ingrassia
- Item Number
- 505
- Estimated Value
- Priceless
- Sold
- 195 USD to Live Event Bidder
Item Description
After you read the book, you will join Paul for either lunch or dinner at the Morris County Golf Club on Punch Bowl Road in Morristown NJ.
A narrative like no other: a cultural history that explores how cars have both propelled and reflected the American experience— from the Model T to the Prius.
From the assembly lines of Henry Ford to the open roads of Route 66, from the lore of Jack Kerouac to the sex appeal of the Hot Rod, America’s history is a vehicular history—an idea brought brilliantly to life in this major work by Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Paul Ingrassia.
Ingrassia offers a wondrous epic in fifteen automobiles, including the Corvette, the Beetle, and the Chevy Corvair, as well as the personalities and tales behind them: Robert McNamara’s unlikely role in Lee Iacocca’s Mustang, John Z. DeLorean’s Pontiac GTO , Henry Ford’s Model T, as well as Honda’s Accord, the BMW 3 Series, and the Jeep, among others.
Through these cars and these characters, Ingrassia shows how the car has expressed the particularly American tension between the lure of freedom and the obligations of utility. He also takes us through the rise of American manufacturing, the suburbanization of the country, the birth of the hippie and the yuppie, the emancipation of women, and many more fateful episodes and eras, including the car’s unintended consequences: trial lawyers, energy crises, and urban sprawl. Narrative history of the highest caliber, Engines of Change is an entirely edifying new way to look at the American story.
Item Special Note
Please Note: If this item is won online and not at the live event, the winner can pick up the item at the NJSO office in Newark, NJ. If this item is mailed, a shipping and handling fee of $8.00 will be charged to the winner's credit card. The lunch/dinner to be held on a mutually agreeable date prior to December 31, 2012.
Donated By:
Paul Ingrassia
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