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Automobile Anniversary

March 2023
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Where did the starry-eyed soul who organized your a-historical, hysterical ode to the automobile get those one-sided impressions of “liberation” in a “high, wide, and handsome” dream machine, et cetera, et cetera? Not in the gridlocked world most of us inhabit, stuck in traffic and stuck in lives dependent upon two thousand pounds of steel to buy a half-gallon of milk.

By letting the car culture overcome the nation, we have wrecked habitat and health and ravished our cities and countryside. Some birthday.

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Stories published from "February/March 1997"

Authored by: Robert A. Selig

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Authored by: Frederic D. Schwarz

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Authored by: Fredric Smoler

A historian of the ancient world believes that in every era humankind has reacted to the demands of waging war in surprisingly similar ways, and that to protect our national interests today Americans must understand the choices soldiers and statesmen made hundreds and even thousands of years ago

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A young man’s journey from Brooklyn to the world, from boyhood to the glimmerings of maturity, from peace to war

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