John Bond and the rise of Road & Track Magazine
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John Bond and the rise of Road & Track Magazine

2025-02-27
Part 1: Luke Chennel - John Bond (1912-1989) and his wife Elaine bought the faltering magazine Road & Track in 1949. Over the course of his ownership and editorship, Bond built the magazine into a major cultural force. This presentation examines the dimensions that Bond engaged with his editorial viewpoint from a wholistic cultural lens. Bond built a durable version of car culture, the practices and values of which remain in many forms today, though under challenge from old and new trends in the automotive industry.  Bond’s version of car en...
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