Cars: A Romantic Manifesto

by Kent Gramm

Publisher:

Resource Publications

, 2021

Overview

This spiritual manifesto was written for any reader seeking romantic fulfillment, environmental salvation, enlightenment, and a decent automobile. Journey to Shangri-La, Goethe’s Germany, the Sweden of Willie Volvo and his Princess, the Poet’s Path along the picturesque Neckar River, and the America of apple pie and Chevrolet. If all of civilization is on a mad, Faustian quest for material happiness, how can we find sanity, redemption, true love, and a good car?

Praise for Cars

“Readers of this book may ask as I did, What have we here? Poetry or protest? Wisdom or

wackiness? Parody or preaching? Automotive analysis or autobiographical admission? The

answer: both none and all of the above in a seething admixture of erudition, despair,

hopefulness, realism, Romanticism, contempt, and humility. And yet somehow also a

foundational affirmation of the redemptive potential of love. ‘You were innocent until you read this’ was a line that sticks with me. Which makes the reader guilty of . . . what? I had to read the

book to find out. I am truly glad I did.”

—Robert W. Yarbrough, Professor of New Testament, Covenant Theological Seminary, St. Louis, Missouri

Product Details

• Title: Cars: A Romantic Manifesto
• Author: Kent Gramm
• Publisher: Resource Publications
• Print Publication Date: 2021
• Logos Release Date: 2021
• Pages: 254
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Ebook
• ISBNs: 9781666703368, 9781666703351, 1666703354, 9781666703344, 1666703346, 1666703362
• Resource ID: LLS:9781666703368
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2025-04-22T17:32:19Z

About the Author

Kent Gramm is the author of November, Somebody’s Darling, Psalms for Skeptics, Psalms for the Poor, The Prayer of Jesus, Sharpsburg, Clare, and Gettysburg: The Living and the Dead (with photographer Chris Heisey). He teaches Civil War-era studies and automotive theory at Gettysburg College.