True to the rich genre of "coffee-table books," The SAE Story is filled with archival images, historical background, and is punctuated with the personalities and pivotal moments in transportation technology. As told by Post, a former transportation curator at the Smithsonian Institution and author of more than a dozen titles including Technology,Transport, and Travel in American History (American Historical Association, 2003) and High Performance: The Culture and Technology of Drag Racing (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001), household names such as Henry Ford, Orville Wright and Mario Andretti become the architects in the building of an industry.

ISBN: 9780768014891