{"product_id":"9781487555818","title":"Dream Car","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDream Car\u003c\/em\u003e tells the story of entrepreneur Malcolm Bricklin’s fantastical 1970s-era Safety Vehicle-1 (SV1), audaciously launched during a tumultuous breakpoint in postwar history. The tale of the sexy-yet-safe SV1 reveals the influence of automobiles on ideas about the future, technology, entrepreneurship, risk, safety, showmanship, politics, sex, gender, business, and the state, as well as the history of the auto industry’s birth, decline, and rebirth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDream Car\u003c\/em\u003e explains how automobility made and unmade industrial modernity across three eras: its emergence and expansion starting in the 1900s, shaped by Fordism, Keynesianism, and the second industrial revolution; its futuristic, high-industrial peak in the mid-twentieth century; and, after the 1970s, its industrial postmodern reality, shaped by neoliberalism and the third and fourth industrial revolutions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWritten as an “open road,” the book invites readers to travel a narrative arc that unfolds chronologically and thematically. \u003cem\u003eDream Car’s\u003c\/em\u003e seven chapters have also been structured so that they can be read in any order, determined by whichever theme each reader finds most interesting. The book also includes a musical playlist of car songs from the era and songs about the SV1 itself, including tunes from the funky 2010 musical based on the incident, \u003cem\u003eThe Bricklin: An Automotive Fantasy\u003c\/em\u003e. Ultimately, \u003cem\u003eDream Car\u003c\/em\u003e reveals the many aspects of the automobile’s dramatically changing impact on society.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dimitry Anastakis (CA)","offers":[{"title":"University of Toronto Press |  Hardback  |  2024-04-15","offer_id":44652803555583,"sku":"9781487555818","price":90.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_b32024eb-5eed-49dc-bd17-768cf441309d.jpg?v=1704321710","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9781487555818","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}