Skip out of work early on Friday and claim you were Carjacked.
Carjacked: The Culture of the Automobile and Its Effect on Our Lives
Friday, Aug. 6, 3 p.m.
Bertha Landes Room, City Hall, Seattle
Carjacked is an acclaimed new book covering our infatuation with cars. Emphasizing the attachment of values such as personal independence, self-image, and status to cars, Lutz and Fernandez look at automobile advertising and movies to show how media exploits people's desire to buy cars. Turning to life on the road, Lutz and Fernandez, relying on studies and interviews with about 100 drivers, look at public subsidies for automobile infrastructure, time spent in cars - and lives lost in them by the tens of thousands annually. Meet the authors, Catherine Lutz and Anne Lutz Fernandez, on their car-free national book-tour.
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