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Author Rieger, Bernhard, 1967-

Title The people's car : a global history of the Volkswagen Beetle / Bernhard Rieger.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2013.
©2013
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1579358~S1
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 Nichols Adult Nonfiction  629.2222 RIE    AVAILABLE
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Description 406 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Prologue : "some shapes are hard to improve on" -- Before the "people's car" -- A symbol of the National Socialist people's community? -- "We should make no demands" -- Icon of the early federal republic -- An export hit -- "The Beetle is dead-long live the Beetle" -- "I have a vochito in my heart" -- Of Beetles old and new -- Epilogue : the Volkswagen Beetle as a global icon.
Summary A cultural history tracing the Volkswagen Beetle from its origins in Nazi Germany to its role in the postwar West German economic miracle to its popularity in midcentury Europe and the U.S., second career in Mexico and Latin America and revival in the late 1990s.
Subject Volkswagen Beetle automobile.
Volkswagen Beetle automobile -- History.
Added Title Global history of the Volkswagen Beetle.
ISBN 9780674050914 (hc. : alk. paper)
0674050916 (hc. : alk. paper)
Standard No. 40022179543
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