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- ISBN 9780814353448
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 18 Aug 2026
- Publisher: Wayne State University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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A vivid account of a boomer's life in the driver's seat.
Gear up for a motorized journey through post–World War II America! Blending history and personal memoir, Larry Lankton pays homage to the automobile, arguably the most important technological object of twentieth-century America. The omnipresence of cars shaped popular culture during the Golden Age of American prosperity and featured prominently in Lankton's own coming-of-age memories of family life and teenage (mis)adventures—especially his 1964 GTO. Told in incredible detail, Lankton's recollections and his attention to the historical impact of the car industry of the 1950s and 1960s demonstrate how much boomers, and the generations that follow, owe to the American automobile.
Larry Lankton is professor emeritus of history at Michigan Technological University. His scholarly career focused on the history of mining, technological development, and labor in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. His book Cradle to Grave: Life, Work, and Death at the Lake Superior Copper Mines won a Great Lakes History Prize. Lankton is also the author of Hollowed Ground: Copper Mining and Community Building on Lake Superior, 1840s–1990s (Wayne State University Press).
