Laurie Taylor talks to the eminent American political scientist Norman Birnbaum about his new book After Progress. In his new study he asks what the the future holds for us all in societies where socialism has become discredited and consumerism dominates.
Laurie will also be finding out more about our search for "modernity through mobility" when he talks to the social historian Ruth Brandon about her new book which charts the social history of the car and wonders whether the fairytale fantasies offered by the automobile have turned into a bad dream.
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Norman Birnbaum
After Progress: European Socialism and American Social Reform in the Twentieth Century
Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195120051
Ruth Brandon
Automobile - How the Car Changed Life
Macmillan
ISBN: 0333766660
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