TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rieger,Bernhard
TI  - The people's car: a global history of the Volkswagen Beetle 
SN  - 9780674050914
AV  - TL215.V6 R54 2013
U1  - 629.222/2 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - Volkswagen Beetle automobile
KW  - History
KW  - cct
KW  - fast
KW  - VW Käfer
KW  - gnd
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-391) and index; 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
N2  - "The People's Car is a transnational cultural history tracing the 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"--Provided by publisher
UR  - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=41013
ER  -