A glorious and nostalgic celebration of a defining period in American car culture\u2014the 1950s to the 1970s, the golden age of Detroit\u2019s icons of the road\u2014when automobile design was at its peak and the car itself was synonymous with a vision of success in America.<\/p>\n
Auto America offers a compelling look at three decades (the 1950s, \u201960s, and \u201970s) of America\u2019s fascination with the automobile. At a time when self-driving vehicles and climate change are transforming driving around the world, John G. Zimmerman\u2019s pictures capture the optimism and even utopianism of a beloved period in American car culture.<\/p>\n
Many of Zimmerman\u2019s photographs were originally taken for Life, Time, and Sports Illustrated magazines and highlight diverse aspects of America\u2019s auto industry at its zenith; they feature not only iconic cars of the era, which Zimmerman chronicled comprehensively at car shows and in studio assignments throughout the period, but also a behind-the-scenes look at the people who designed, built, collected, exhibited, and raced them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A glorious and nostalgic celebration of a defining period in American car culture\u2014the 1950s to the 1970s, the golden age of Detroit\u2019s icons of the road\u2014when automobile design was at its peak and the car itself was synonymous with a vision of success in America. Auto America offers a compelling look at three decades (the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":80367,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[13533,4520],"product_tag":[216,334,1681],"class_list":{"0":"post-80006","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-books","7":"product_cat-motorsport-en","8":"product_tag-cars-en","9":"product_tag-collections-en","10":"product_tag-history","11":"pa_author_att-john-g-zimmerman-en","12":"pa_cover-hardcover","13":"pa_format-239-x-287-cm-en","14":"pa_isbn-9780847872749-en","15":"pa_language-eng","16":"pa_pages-224-2-en","17":"pa_published-2022-10-18-en","18":"pa_publisher-rizzoli-en","20":"first","21":"outofstock","22":"sold-individually","23":"shipping-taxable","24":"purchasable","25":"product-type-simple"},"yoast_head":"\n