OK, #nerdland, we talked taxes today to lead off the show, so I think you already know what your tax-related “MHP” Homework is — file! You have until Tuesday, April 17 this year. Don’t pull a Romney; get those 1040s completed and sent off. Once you’ve fulfilled your civic duty, curl up with a little light reading on other topics from today’s show.
If you really love cars, you will enjoy James Flink’s detailed account of how the automobile came to dominate American culture, public policy, and politics at the turn of the 20th century. Find “America Adopts the Automobile, 1895-1910” either online or at your local library. Also, if you really want to know how the car fundamentally altered the landscape of America’s cities, you should know the work of Robert Moses, who was profiled in this 2007 New York Times piece.
And of course, you can’t talk cars without talking Detroit. And we *did* talk Detroit today. Read my colleague Todd Shaw’s terrific book on Detroit politics, “Now is the Time! Detroit Black Politics and Grassroots Activism.”









