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… The Wilson Quarterly: Book Reviews: Rollin' Through the Years by Phil Patton.

Cultural critic Jacques Barzun famously told Europeans they could not understand America without understanding baseball. He could have added the pickup truck. Together, the vehicles Ingrassia describes come close to constituting a condensed history of the car industry and car culture in America. While setting cars in the context of their times, he avoids the all-too- common practice of reducing each decade to a sort of newsreel-montage cartoon.