Michael, A few tips:
KENNETH CHARLES BLAISDELL wrote a dissertation in 1984 on early 1950s car magazines. The abstract refers to "America's love affair with the car." <kcb "at" deltatechinc.com> Also, in a footnote in a 1958 article on "The Belief in Progress in Twentieth-Century America" Clarke Chambers refers to a Max Lerner article in which Lerner "commented upon the long love affair that Americans had carried on with the machine..."(Journal of the History of Ideas: Vol. 19, No. 2, p.217) Max Lerner "The Machine Explodes" in Actions and Passions: Notes on the Multiple Revolutions of Our Time (New York, 1949) p. 19-20 Tom Walker 604 255 4812
