Driving Force: Automobiles and the New American City, 1900–1930

Gary Cross is the author of Machines of Youth: America’s Car Obsession (University of Chicago Press, 2018) and emeritus professor of history at Penn State University.

Gary Cross

L.A. and the Birth of Car Culture: On Darryl Holter and Stephen Gee’s “Driving Force”

"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein

Science &amp; Technology

"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." — George Bernard Shaw

History

Gary Cross is the author of Machines of Youth: America’s Car Obsession (University of Chicago Press, 2018) and emeritus professor of history at Penn State University.

Gary Cross

Articles

L.A. and the Birth of Car Culture: On Darryl Holter and Stephen Gee’s “Driving Force”