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Johnson has crafted a unique and exciting interdisciplinary treatise on the concept of energy in American life that profoundly informs our understanding of the basic cultural patterns of twentieth-century living. His writing style is spry and intelligent, while his insights are provocative and terribly important and should inspire scholars in a number of fields. --Brian Black, author of Crude Reality: Petroleum in World History and Petrolia: The Landscape of America's First Oil Boom

At a time when climate change has focused much of our attention on the economic and environmental impacts of a carbon-based economy, Johnson examines instead its influence on American culture. the result is a thought-provoking journey through the past that makes useful contributions to cultural history and to the growing discipline of energy history. American Historical Review

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Bob Johnson is a cultural critic and historian. He has been an Associate Professor at the New College of Florida, USA and a Faculty Fellow in the History Department at UC Santa Barbara, USA. He is now Chair of the Department of Social Sciences at National University in La Jolla, California, USA.

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