A Select Bibliography of the History of Automobile in America, Books: F-M

Farber, David R. Sloan Rules: Alfred P. Sloan and the Triumph of General Motors. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002.

Faris, John T. Roaming American Highways. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1931.

Felsen, Henry Gregor. Hot Rod. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1950.

Finkelstein, Norman H. The Way Things Never Were: The Truth About the “Good Old Days” New York: Atheneum, 1999.

Flink, James J. America Adopts the Automobile, 1895-1910. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1970.

------. The Automobile Age. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1988.

Ford, Henry. My Life and Work. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1922.

------. Today and Tomorrow. Cambridge, MA: Productivity Press, 1988.

Foster, Kit. The Stanley Steamer: America’s Legendary Steam Car. Kingfield, ME: Stanley Museum, 2004.

French, Michael J. The United States Tire Industry. Boston: Twayne, 1991.

Frey, John W. ed. A History of the Petroleum Administration for War, 1941-1945. Washington D.C.:G.P.O., 1946.

Gartman, David. Auto Opium: A Social History of American Automobile Design. London: Routledge, 1994.

------. Auto Slavery: The Labor Process in the American Automobile Industry, 1897-1950. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1986.

Georgano, Nick. Art of the American Automobile: The Greatest Stylists and Their Work. New York: Smithmark, 1995.

Gladding, Effie Price. Across the Continent by the Lincoln Highway. New York: Brentano’s, 1915.

Goddard, Stephen B. Colonel Albert Pope and His American Dream Machines: The Life and Times of a Bicycle Tycoon Turned Automotive Pioneer. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2000.

Granatelli, Anthony (Andy). They Call Me Mister 500. Chicago: Henry Regency, 1969.

Greenleaf, William. Monopoly on Wheels: Henry Ford and the Selden Patent Suit. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1961.

Gruskin, Paul. Rock’n Down the Highway: The Cars that Made Rock Roll. St. Paul, MN: Voyageur Press, 2006.

Gustin, Lawrence R. Billy Durant: Creator of General Motors. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1973.

Gutfreud, Owen D. Twentieth-Century Sprawl: Highways and the Reshaping of the American Landscape. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.

Hagstrom, Robert G. The NASCAR Way: The Business that Drives the Sport. New York: John Wiley, 1998.

Hair, William Ivy. The Kingfish and his Realm. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1991.

Halberstam, David. The Reckoning. New York: William Morrow, 1986.

Hamper, Ben. Rivethead: Tales from the Assembly Line. New York: Warner Books, 1992.

Heat Moon, William Least. Blue Highways: A Journey into America. Boston: Little, Brown, 1982.

Hendry, Maurice D. Cadillac, Standard of the World: The Complete History. Princeton, NJ: Automobile Quarterly Publications, 1977.

Herlihy, David V. Bicycle: The History. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2004.

Hokanson, Drake. The Lincoln Highway: Main Street Across America. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1988.

Hounshell, David A. From The American System to Mass Production 1800-1932: The Development of Manufacturing Technology in the United States. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1984.

Hyde, Charles K. The Dodge Brothers: The Men, the Motor Cars, and the Legacy. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2005.

Hyde, Charles K. Riding the Roller Coaster: A History of the Chrysler Corporation. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2003.

Iacocca, Lee, with William Novak. Iacocca: An Autobiography. New York: Bantam Books, 1984.

Ikuta, Yasutoshi. American Automobile: Advertising from the Antique and Classic Eras. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1988.

------. Cruise-o-matic: Automobile Advertising of the 1950s. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1988.

Ingrassia, Paul. Comeback: The Fall and Rise of the American Automobile Industry. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995.

Innes, C. D. Designing Modern America: Broadway to Main Street. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005.

Jackson, Robert B. Road Race Round the World: New York to Paris, 1908. New York: Scholastic, 1965.

Jacobs, Timothy. A History of General Motors. New York: Smithmark, 1992.

------. Lemons: The Worlds Worst Cars. Greenwich, CT: Dorsey, 1991.

James, Wanda. Driving From Japan: Japanese Cars in America. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2005.

Jardim, Anne. The First Henry Ford: A Study in Personality and Leadership. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1970.

Jeffreys, Steven. Management and the Managed. London: Cambridge Press, 1986.

Jerome, John. The Death of the Automobile: The Fatal Effect of the Golden Era, 1955-1970. New York: Norton, 1972.

Kanigel, Robert. The One Best Way: Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Enigma of Efficiency. New York: Viking, 1997.

Kaszynski, William. Route 66: Images of America’s Main Street. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2003.

Keats, John. The Insolent Chariots. Greenwich, CT: Fawcett, 1959.

Keene, Carolyn. The Secret of the Old Clock. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1930.

Kerouac, Jack. On the Road. New York: Viking, 2007.

Keyser, Michael. French Kiss With Death: Steve McQueen and the Making of Lemans: The man—the Race—the Cars—the Movie. Cambridge, MA: Robert Bentley, 1999.

Kinsey, Alfred, et al. Sexual Behavior in the Human Female. Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders Company, 1953.

Kirby, Richard Shelton. Engineering in History. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1956.

Kirsch, David. The Electric Vehicle and the Burden of History. (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2000).

Koistinen, Paul A. C. Arsenal of World War II: The Political Economy of American Warfare, 1940-1945. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1994.

Kraus, Henry. Heroes of Unwritten Story: The UAW 1934-1939. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1993.

Laban, Brian. Cars: The Early Years. Köln: Könemann, 2000.

Lacey, Robert. Ford, the Men and the Machine. New York: Little, Brown, 1986.

Lackey, James H. The Jordan Automobile: A History. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2005.

Landis, Carole. Four Jills in a Jeep. New York: Random House, 1944.

Langworth, Richard M., and Jan P. Norbye. The Complete History of Chrysler Corporation, 1924-1985. New York: Beekman House, 1985.

Lane, Rose Wilder. Travels with Zenobia: Paris to Albania by Model T Ford. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1983.

Langworth, Richard M., and Jan P. Norbye. The Complete History of General Motors, 1908‑1986. Skokie, IL: Publications International, 1986.

Laux, James. In First Gear: The French Automobile Industry. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1976.

Lavine, Sigmund A. Kettering: Master Inventor. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1960.

Lears, T. J. Jackson. Fables of Abundance: A Cultural History of Advertising in America. New York: Basic Books, 1994.

Leavitt, Helen. Superhighway—Superhoax. New York: Ballantine, 1970.

Le Grand, Henderson. Augustus Drives a Jeep. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1946.

Leland, Ottilie M., with Minnie Dubbs Millbrook. Master of Precision: Henry M. Leland. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1996.

Leslie, Stewart W. Boss Kettering. New York: Columbia University Press, 1983.

Lesseig, Corey T. Automobility: Social Changes in the American South 1909-1939. New York and London: Routledge, 2001.

Levine, Leo. Ford: The Dust and the Glory: A Racing History. 2 vols. Warrendale, PA: SAE, 2001.

Levy, Lester S. Give Me Yesterday: American History in Song, 1890-1920. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1975.

Lewis, David Lanier. The Public Image of Henry Ford: An American Folk Hero and His Company. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1987.

Lewis, Tom. Divided Highways: Building the Interstate Highways, Transforming American Life. New York: Viking, 1997.

Lewis, W. David. Eddie Rickenbacker: An American Hero in the Twentieth Century. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005.

Lincoln, Natalie Sumner. The Blue Car Mystery. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1926.

Lincoln Highway Association. A Picture of Progress on the Lincoln Way. Detroit, 1920.

Livesay, Harold. American Made. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1977.

Ludwigsen, Karl. Battle for the Beetle. Cambridge, MA: Bentley, 2000.

Lutz, Robert A. Guts: The Seven Laws of Business that Made Chrysler the World’s Hottest Car Company. New York: John Wiley, 1998.

Lynd, Robert S. and Helen Merrell Lynd. Middletown in Transition: A Study in Cultural Conflicts. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1937.

Lyons, Dan. Cars of the Fantastic ‘50s. Iola, WI: KP Books, 2005.

Maugeri, Leonardo. The Age of Oil: The Mythology, History, and the Future of the World’s Most Controversial Resource. Westport, CT: Prager, 2006.

Madsen, Axel. The Deal Maker: How William C. Durant Made General Motors. New York: Wiley, 1999.

Mantle, Jonathan. Car Wars: Fifty Years of Greed, Treachery, and Skulduggery in the Global Marketplace. New York: Arcade, 1995.

March, Peter and Peter Collett. Driving Passion: The Psychology of the Car. Boston and London: Faber and Faber, 1987.

Marling, Karal Ann. As Seen on TV: The Visual Culture of Everyday Life in the 1950s. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1994.

Marquis, Samuel S. Henry Ford: An Interpretation. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1923.

Massey, Beatirice Larned. It Might Have Been Worse: A Motor Trip from Coast to Coast. San Francisco: Harr Wagner, 1920.

Maxim, Hiram Percy. Horseless Carriage Days. New York: Dover, 1962.

May, George W. Charles E. Duryea Automaker. Chillicothe, IL: River Beach Publishing, 1996.

McCahill, Tom. The Modern Sports Car. New York: Prentice-Hall, 1954.

McCallum, Iain. Blood Brothers: Hiram and Hudson Maxim; Pioneers of Modern Warfare. London: Chatham, 1999.

McCalley, Bruce W. Model T Ford: The Car that Changed the World. Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 1994.

McKeon, Elizabeth and Linda Everett. Cinema Under the Stars: America’s Love Affair with the Drive-In Movie Theater. Nashville, TN: Cumberland House, 1998.

McNichol, Dan. The Roads that Built America: The Incredible Story of the U.S. Interstate System. New York: Sterling, 2006.

McShane, Clay. Down the Asphalt Path: The Automobile and the American City. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994.

Madden, W. C. Haynes-Apperson and America’s First Practical Automobile: A History. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2003.

Marcantonio, Alfred, David Abbot, and John O’Driscoll. Is the Bug Dead? The Great Beetle Ad Campaign. New York: Stewart, 1983.

Medley, Tom. Tex Smith’s Hot Rod History. Osceloa, WI: Motorbooks International, 1990.

Meier, August. Black Detroit. New York: Oxford University Press, 1979.

Miller, Ray. Chevrolet: The Coming of Age, 1911-1942. Oceanside, CA: Evergreen Press, 1976.

Mills, Katie. The Road Story and the Rebel: Moving through Film, Fiction and Television. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2006.

Mom, Gijs. The Electric Vehicle: Technology and Expectations in the Automobile Age. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004.

Monkkonen, Eric H. America Becomes Urban: the Development of U.S. Cities and Towns 1780-1980. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1988.

Moorehouse, H. F. Driving Ambitions: An Analysis of the American Hot Rod Enthusiasm. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1991.

Morales, Rebecca. Flexible Production: Restructuring the International Automobile Industry. Cambridge, MA: Polity Press, 1994.

Moses, Sam. Fast Guys, Rich Guys and Idiots: A Racing Odyssey on the Border of Obsession. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2007.

Mueller, Mike. The American Pickup Truck. Osceola, WI: MBI, 1999.

Muir, John and Tosh Gregg. How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive: A Manual of Step by Step Procedures for the Compleat Idiot. Santa Fe, NM: John Muir Publications, 16th ed., 1995.