| #1090003 in Books | 2015-02-03 | 2015-02-03 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 6.54 x.45 x4.83l,.0 | File type: PDF | 160 pages||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| This beautifully written account of the humble driver's license is a ...|By Hannah M Carney|This beautifully written account of the humble driver's license is a joy to read. Castile takes us on a trip through American history, touching on developing and then waning car culture, driving as a right versus a privilege, underage drinking and fake ids, travel security and surveillan|||“Ranging across the 20th century and between continents, Castile teaches a fundamental 'lesson' about the license: what's meant to fix an identity in fact generates competing meanings and values. Freedom and control, security and vulnerability, authenti
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
A classic teenage fetish object, the American driver's license has long symbolized freedom and mobility in a nation whose design assumes car travel and whose vastness rivals continents. It is youth's pass to regulated vice-cigarettes, bars, tattoo parlors, casinos, strip joints, music venues, guns. In its more recent history, the license has become in...
You easily download any file type for your gadget.Driver's License (Object Lessons) | Meredith Castile. Which are the reasons I like to read books. Great story by a great author.
