Growing Up and Getting Old Behind the Wheel

<p>Witty and softly sardonic William Schiff’s autobiographical romp describes his lifelong travels from early childhood to the Golden Years. Growing Up and Getting Old Behind the Wheel: An American Auto Biography is framed in a web of Americana including cars he has ridden in driven modified and even stolen. The span of his story is peppered with allusions to the locales books films music and social politics of the times he has experienced. He describes his youthful descent with friends into light criminality—his incarceration and his ultimate salvation and redemption through America’s universities rather than through its Churches. He sketches his menial jobs as a youth as well as his later roles as student university professor parent behavioral scientist and retiree. If you’ve lived in America between 1940 and today you’ll want to come along on the engrossing scenic drive through his vivid memories.</p>