Brian Ladd is a research associate in the history department at the University at Albany, State University of New York. He is the author of The Ghosts of Berlin, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

"The work of Autophobia is precisely about looking again at what has been said, by whom and for what reason, and why none of the voluminous critiques of the car - by any number of estimable figures - seem to have much mattered. [Ladd] does this with equanimity and scholarly aplomb... and for a slender volume, this book has a lot under the hood." (Tom Vanderbilt, New York Times Book Review)"

Brian Ladd is a research associate in the history department at the University at Albany, State University of New York. He is the author of The Ghosts of Berlin, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

"The work of Autophobia is precisely about looking again at what has been said, by whom and for what reason, and why none of the voluminous critiques of the car - by any number of estimable figures - seem to have much mattered. [Ladd] does this with equanimity and scholarly aplomb... and for a slender volume, this book has a lot under the hood." (Tom Vanderbilt, New York Times Book Review)"