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High and Mighty: Suvs-The World's Most Dangerous Vehicles and How They Got That Way Hardcover - 2002

by Keith Bradsher


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SUVs have taken over America's roads. Ad campaigns promote them as safer and greener than ordinary cars and easy to handle in bad weather. But very little about the SUV's image is accurate. They poorly protect occupants and inflict horrific damage in crashes, they guzzle gasoline and they are hard to control. Keith Bradsher has been at the forefront in reporting the calamitous safety and environmental record of SUVs, including the notorious Ford-Firestone rollover controversy. In this book he traces the checkered history of SUVs, showing how they came to be classified not as passenger cars but as light trucks, which are subject to less strict regulations on safety, gas mileage and air pollution. He makes a powerful case that these vehicles are even worse than we suspect - for their occupants, for other motorists, for pedestrians and for the planet itself. In the tradition of Unsafe at Any Speed and Fast Food Nation, Bradsher's book is a damning expose of an industry that puts us all at risk, whether we recognize it or not.

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At Henry Ford's mansion outside Detroit, the carved wood busts supporting the ceiling in the ballroom show the inventor of the Model T and three close friends, all famous: Harvey Firestone, founder of the tire company that bears his name; Thomas Edison, inventor of the lightbulb and phonograph; and John Burroughs, the naturalist.

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  • Title High and Mighty: Suvs-The World's Most Dangerous Vehicles and How They Got That Way
  • Author Keith Bradsher
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition FIRST EDITION
  • Pages 464
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher PublicAffairs, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date September 17, 2002
  • ISBN 9781586481230 / 1586481231
  • Weight 1.91 lbs (0.87 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.56 x 6.44 x 1.5 in (24.28 x 16.36 x 3.81 cm)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002028722
  • Dewey Decimal Code 629.231
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