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    Spending My Free Time Researching Free Time

    One academic tells the story behind his new book -- and his next one.
    by Gary Cross via HNN on February 27, 2024
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    L.A. and the Birth of Car Culture

    On Darryl Holter and Stephen Gee’s “Driving Force: Automobiles and the New American City, 1900–1930.”
    by Gary Cross via Los Angeles Review of Books on July 15, 2023
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Free Time: The History of an Elusive Ideal
Gary Cross
2024

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