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Apr 20, 2012 05:12 PM EDT

Engines of Change: A History of the American Dream in Fifteen Cars

by Dawn Raffel, Reader's Digest Editor at Large, Books

engines of change
Paul Ingrassia, a celebrated journalist and certified car nut, explains how our wheels not only got us from here to there but also shaped our national psyche. See, we knew that old Chevy was worth something.

From the book: “The Model T promoted social networking one hundred years before Facebook and fostered a sexual revolution a half century before the Pill.”

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