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A measure of any book is whether it makes you think beyond its pages, and Bike Battles did just that for me. My dad used to tell me that if I got only one thing out of a book--an interesting fact, a point of view I hadn't previously considered, something helpful to my life or just entertainment--the book was worth its cover price. By that standard Bike Battles is a bargain. It allowed me to see the last 150 years of riding in America like a mosaic on the wall. I won't look at parked cars the same way again. The book ought to give today's bicycle advocates a sense of their place in history and make them proud to continue the battle.--Grant Petersen Wall Street Journal (01/01/2015)

These colorful references, coupled with Longhurst's light and natural writing style, make Bike Battles easy to read. -- Amy Goetzman MinnPost In six chapters, [Longhurst] traces the history of what is essentially road-sharing: first horses and carts mixed with pedestrians; then trolleys and buses; then, after WWII, an overwhelming shift, funded by federal highway dollars, to the primacy of the car. -- Joe Garvin City Living Seattle A measure of any book is whether it makes you think beyond its pages, and Bike Battles did just that for me. My dad used to tell me that if I got only one thing out of a book-an interesting fact, a point of view I hadn't previously considered, something helpful to my life or just entertainment-the book was worth its cover price. By that standard Bike Battles is a bargain. It allowed me to see the last 150 years of riding in America like a mosaic on the wall. I won't look at parked cars the same way again. The book ought to give today's bicycle advocates a sense of their place in history and make them proud to continue the battle. -- Grant Petersen Wall Street Journal

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James Longhurst is associate professor of history at the University of Wisconsin–La Crosse and author of Citizen Environmentalists.

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