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In Car Safety Wars Michael Lemov has done a masterful job of documenting the long and complicated evolution of a critically important public-health effort-the century-long campaign to make motor vehicles safer. As a first-hand participant in and observer of that effort, he brings special insights into its successes and failures. Car Safety Wars is essential reading for anyone interested in understanding the history of auto safety in this country.

Title Car safety wars : one hundred years of technology, politics, and death / Michael R. Lemov.
Publisher Madison, [New Jersey]
Teaneck, [New Jersey] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Creation Date 2015
Notes Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
English
Content Contents
Acknowledgments
Prologue
Chapter One: Love and Death on the Open Road
Chapter Two: Voices in the Wilderness
Chapter Three: Just a Congressman from a Small State
Chapter Four: Safety Doesn't Sell
Chapter Five: General Motors Meets Ralph Nader
Chapter Six: A Federal Law
Chapter Seven: Dr. Haddon, Detroit, and the New Safety Agency
Chapter Eight: Dragon Lady
Chapter Nine: The Birth and Near Death of the Air Bag
Chapter Ten: Elizabeth Dole, State Farm, and How America Got the Air Bag
Chapter Eleven: Rough Road for Recalls
Chapter Twelve: Forcing New Technology
Epilogue
Appendix AAppendix B
Interviews by the Author
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
Extent 1 online resource (289 p.)
Language English
Copyright Date ©2015
National Library system number 997012489920105171
MARC RECORDS
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