Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Prologue -- PART I: TOBACCO BEFORE TYPES -- 1 Making Tobacco Virginian -- 2 Growing the Business -- 3 Death and Taxes -- PART II: CONSTRUCTING VARIETALS -- 4 Ripeness Is All -- 5 Inventing Tradition -- 6 Stabilization -- Appendix. The Real...

Intro -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction -- One - How a Bad Idea Became Good (to Some) -- Two - Back from the Frontier -- Three - Development at Research -- Four - MOS in a Bipolar Company -- Five - It Takes an Industry -- Six - The End of Research -- Seven - IBM -- Eight - The Logic...

Faster flivvers, 1915-1927 -- Westward ho, 1928-1942 -- From hot rods to hot rodding, 1945-1955 -- The California hot rod industry, 1945-1955 -- Factory muscle, 1955-1970 -- Bolt-on power, 1955-1970 -- The Speed Equipment Manufacturers Association -- "Ink-happy do-gooders", 1960-1978 -- "This...