Why We Drive: Toward a Philosophy of the Open Road
- Pages
- 369
- Author
- Matthew B. Crawford
- Published
- 2020
- Date
- Tags
- cars, biography, memoir, philosophy
TLDR: “Entertaining read, with a larger philosophic point”
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