High and Mighty: The Dangerous Rise of the SUV
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品牌: Keith Bradsher
基本信息出版社:The Perseus Books Group; 第1版 (2004年1月31日)外文书名:休闲越野车的崛起平装:464页正文语种:英语开本:20开ISBN:1586482033条形码:9781586482039商品尺寸:20.3 x 15 x 3.3 cm商品重量:340 g品牌:PublicAffairsASIN:1586482033商品描述内容简介Book Description
Keith Bradsher has been at the forefront of critical SUV coverage since his posting as Detroit bureau chief for the New York Times from January 1996, through August 2001. While in Detroit, Bradsher won the George Polk Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for being the first reporter to cover the many problems created by SUVs. . Winner of the New York Public Library Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in JournalismWinner of The Washington Monthly 's 2002 Annual Political Book AwardA New York Times Notable Book of the YearA BookSense 76 PickSince High and Mighty was published in the Fall of 2002, regulators and consumers have become increasingly suspicious of sport utility vehicles and their poor safety records, heavy air pollution, and misleading marketing. Yet SUV sales continue to rise, leading average fuel consumption of new vehicles to a twenty- two year low and pushing traffic deaths to the highest level since 1990. As aging SUVs enter the used market, the problem is likely to grow much worse. radsher makes a powerful case that these vehicles are much worse than cars-for their occupants, for other motorists, for pedestrians, and for the planet itself.
In so doing, he pulls off a work of investigative journalism that shows how a flawed regulatory system, a desperate Detroit, and our national love for "bigger and better" have combined to create this highway arms race. The paperback includes an epilogue covering new developments and an appendix explaining how to drive an SUV more safely.
FromBook News Annotation
This is a reprint of a 2002 book, which was published with a slightly difference subtitle ( Bureau chief for The New York Times first in Detroit and now in Hong Kong, Bradsher offers a biography of the half-tanks that are clogging US streets. He relies mostly on quotes from within the automobile industry by the people who have designed, built, and marketed them despite reservations about their practicality and safety. Among his revelations is that insurance for the vehicles is subsidized by everyone else's premiums.
About Author
Keith Bradsher has been a staff writer for The New York Times since 1989, and was one of its Washington correspondents from 1991 to 1995 before becoming the newspaper's Detroit bureau chief. He is now the Hong Kong bureau chief for the Times.
Book Dimension
Height (mm) 210 Width (mm) 140媒体推荐Reviews
"Perhaps the most important book about Detroit since Ralph Nader's Unsafe at Any Speed....Bradsher brilliantly captures the mixture of bafflement and contempt that many auto executives feel towards the customers who buy their SUVs."
Malcolm Gladwell, The New Yorker
"This is one of the best books on American politics I have read recently, although it's supposed to be about cars....[A] marvelously told book....How [the auto market] came undone is Keith Bradsher's menacing story, and I think he has it cold..."
The New York Times
"The growing grass-roots movement against the sport-utility vehicle now has a bible."
The Washington Post
"[S]uperb for many reasons...fascinating historical material is presented with narrative panache....Every engaged citizen of our perishable republic ought to read this book."
Newsday
"[T]horoughly researched, superbly readable....Bradsher's book is that incisive: a tribute to what one hard-nosed investigative reporter can pull off, regardless of auto-industry promotion of an alternate reality..."
Philadelphia Inquirer
"Damned if Bradsher doesn't make a point. In fact a fusillade of points....[High and Mighty is a] sobering, infuriating, necessary book."
The New York Times Book Review
"[High and Mighty] should be read by drivers of SUVs and all those who must share the road with them."
Library Journal
"[A] book that deserves attention. Read it before you drool over the muscle-bound Explorers, Excursions, Blazers, and Cherokees in the showroom. Is the macho image worth the price?"
Toronto Globe and Mail
"An intelligent reader will conclude from this meticulous and sober investigation that the makers of these behemoths have exploited a lucrative market of self-regarding urban and suburban consumers who care not a whit that...they are committing a horrendously antisocial act."
The Atlantic Monthly
"In this page-turner of a book Keith Bradsher uncovers the greed of Detroit auto executives who dressed a truck up as a car, called it an SUV, and made bundles while despoiling the environment and endangering lives. High and Mighty reveals not just the get-the-profits-up-at-any-cost excesses of the auto industry, but the craven behavior of Washington that surrenders its regulatory oversight, the true safety menace these truck pose, and even the cowardly silence of environmentalists. Who speaks for consumers? This eloquent, painstakingly reported book does. It is a shout that must be heard."
Ken Auletta
"High and Mighty is an expose in the best tradition. Keith Bradsher takes a phenomenon we all think we're familiar with — and then explains its hidden history and startling consequences in eye-opening ways. Anyone who has an SUV in the family or who faces SUVs on the road will want to know what's in this book." James Fallows
