Abounding Happiness

Abounding Happiness by M Scott Peck Md

This lavishly illustrated book explores the vast publicity surrounding eight milestone transcontinental auto trips in the early twentieth century, and how this publicity produced a variety of changes in American life. Earlier coast-to-coast trips (described in the author's Coast-to-Coast by Automobile: The Pioneering Trips, 1899-1908 (Stanford, 2000) were also attention-grabbing events, but it was not until Pennsylvania lumberman Jacob Murdock became the first man to drive his family across the continent, that the average American began to see the automobile as a useful, practical means of traveling long distances. Murdock's trip ended the period when automakers (and others) would sponsor a cross-country trip merely to prove that it could be done.
The later trips chronicled in this book reflected the remarkable developments in automobile technology and durability, and demonstrated the automobile's recreational, military, and commercial possibilities as well. The accounts of these exciting trips--carried in newspapers and magazines across the land--captivated Americans. Our familiarity with modern interstate highways only increases our wonder that in the early twentieth century adventurous motorists were resourceful and determined enough to establish cross-country driving records when the few roads connecting cities were snow-clogged in winter, mud-bogged in spring, and pockmarked with deep and dusty ruts the rest of the year. These trips, which vividly illustrated what one observer called the crying need for good roads in the United States, are illustrated by some 125 rare photographs.

Scott & Shannon Peck, are passionate about love & teaching & empowering others with love skills that transform relationships & lives. Scott & Shannon are Love Master teachers, workshop facilitators, speakers, national radio co-hosts, & co-authors of many books on love & healing, including: The Love You Deserve: A Spiritual Guide to Genuine Love Liberating Your Magnificence Love Skills You Were Never Taught: Secrets of a Love Master Love Heals: How to Heal Everything with Love & the companion Love Heals Study Guide (both by Shannon Peck) The Pecks are co-founders of The Love Center - www.TheLoveCenter.com - a non-profit educational organization dedicated to Raising universal love awareness & awakening a world of Love Masters. Shannon Peck is a spiritual healer, author, & teacher of love & healing. Shannon's holds a degree in Religious Studies from Emerson Theological Institute. Scott Peck earned his Masters Degree in Education & Doctorate in Divinity & has worked professionally as a reporter, photographer, copywriter, educator, national advertising manager, real estate broker, & love teacher. The Pecks live in San Diego, California.

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ISBN 13	9780740733352
ISBN 10	0740733354
Titel	Abounding Happiness
Autor	M Scott Peck Md
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Bindungsart	Hardback
Verlag	Andrews McMeel Publishing
Erscheinungsjahr	2003-05-02
Seitenanzahl	127
Hinweis auf dem Einband	Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.
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