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High and Mighty.(Book Review)-

Publication: Trial
Publication Date: 01-FEB-03
Format: Online - approximately 1024 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: High and Mighty.(Book Review)-(book review)

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Keith Bradsher PublicAffairs www.publicaffairsbooks.com 464 pp., $28

SUVs are everywhere you look in America, perhaps the biggest fashion statement since blue jeans. Former New York Times Detroit bureau chief Keith Bradsher shines a glaring light on this phenomenon, and the view is not pretty.

SUVs are at best a paradox and at worst one of the most successful scams of the 20th century. They present the facade of safety while endangering their occupants and others. Their "eco"-image is a mirage that has lured otherwise environmentally conscious baby boomers to buy polluting gas guzzlers. Driving a full-size SUV instead of a midsize car for a year uses as much excess energy as leaving the refrigerator door open for six years. They have become the family car of a generation, while hardly reflecting family values.

As a lawyer who has spent the last decade representing families destroyed by SUV instability, I read...

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