commentary by Michael L. Bromley
copyright 2007

Bromley Here and There: News & in the News

See also BROMLEY publications for
recent books and magazine articles

Jun/07:
Washington Post "Flashbacks" comic strip features
Bromley's book, "William Howard Taft and the First Motoring Presidency":

"The Cars are for Sissies President"
(and scroll down for)
"Wheels for the White House"

The cartoon ran twice, June 17 and June 24, with the first focusing on Teddy Roosevelt's dislike for autos and the other on Taft's endorsement of them. Here for the website of Flashbacks' creator, Patrick Reynolds, The Red Rose Studio.

May/07:
Bromley assisted Infoplease.com on-line almanac with an "Ask the Editors" entry on the first White House automobiles

Apr 25/07:
Toyota Tops GM:
Bromley comments on the event in the Washington Post

Apr/07:
Bromleyisms Back!
A website implosion in late 2006 forced abandonment of postings from the Summer and Fall of 2006. It's been a while, now, but we're back up!

Mar/07:
 Automobile Quarterly has published part 4 of 4 of the Bromley series on Motoring Through Tough Times: Motoring Through the 1970s.
This last installment is on the 1970s. For a related discussion, see this post
in the Bromleyisms Automobiles blog of  8/10/06: Safe at all costs

Jan/07:
Bromley moderated the Society of Automotive Historians panel at the American Historical Association (AHA) annual meeting at Atlanta:

Making Cars, Making History:
The Automobile's Impact on United States National Identity

The panel discussion was presented in conjunction with the AHA as an official event of the Association's proceedings.

Nov/06:
Part 3 of 4 of the Bromley series on Motoring Through Tough Times: now released by Automobile Quarterly: Motoring Through the '40s.

Aug 13/06:
Bromley assisted with and quoted in Washington Post article:
As the Auto Age Dawned, Gasoline Wasn't King

Jun 23/06: Modern Day Ambulance Chaser Chases
After Automobile Victims from 1902!

Jun/2006
Put up some early Edison Co. and American Mutoscope Co. films of automobiles and New York City streets. Great fun!

May/2006
Automobile Quarterly just released First Quarter 2006 issue with Bromley article, "Motoring Through the Depression"

Jan/2006
New Bromley articles and papers posted:
The Socialization of the Automobile (AHA Annual Meeting)
Giving Exit 7a A Chance (SAH Journal)
American Automotive Resilience (Automobile Quarterly)

Aug/2005
Two important new books by Progressive Era historian great David Burton:
Taft, Roosevelt, and the Limits of Friendship
William Howard Taft, Confident Peacemaker
(Bromley review of "Confident Peacemaker" here)

Feb/2005
New Bromley's Automotive Book Reviews up!

Media and Event Appearances:

Feb 12/05: Bromley book signing at the Antique Automobile Club of America annual meeting at Philadelphia. Hope to see you there!

Jan 21/05: Celebrating the President's new ride in the article, Limo designed to shield Bush -- and sell cars, The Boston Globe quoted from the book, Stretching It: The Story of the Limousine. They screwed up my website address and failed to include mine and Tom Mazza's name, but, heh, any news is good news, even if misspelled. Thankfully, The Globe straightened out here: For The Record.

Jan 21/05: Speaking of Tom, he and our book are featured in this month's Limo Digest:  Tom and our book from Limo Digest: Tom Mazza is on the Move!  

Jan 20/05: BROMLEY appearance in the Taft segment of the History Channel's The Presidents documentary. They had a smiling BROMLEY with a happy laugh over Taft's humor, and they left it at that, an otherwise bored, depressing take on the Big Guy.
Here for why.

Dec /04: The Ohioana Association and the Cincinnati Public Library kindly included BROMLEY's book on Taft in their celebration of 2004's books on Ohio things and people.

Dec/04: BROMLEY endorsement appears on the back of the great new book by David Burton: William Howard Taft, Confident Peacemaker. See the brief review here.

See also Dr. Burton's other new book, a concise, and precise review of the Taft-Roosevelt relationship: Taft, Roosevelt, and the Limits of Friendship
 

Nov/04: BROMLEY appearance in History Channel's Modern Marvels show,  "Presidential Movers." Fun stuff! that includes unique film of the Presidential limousine that was assisted by   BROMLEY.

Nov/04: BROMLEY appearance in Speed Channel show on the JFK limousine.

Oct/04: BROMLEY speech at the Heritage Museum and Gardens, Sandwich, MA on Taft's presidential automobile, a survivor at the museum. With apologies to Yankees fans, this speech brought the Sox Taft's old good luck, which helped them win the 1912 World Series. Taft listened in on that series in perhaps the first ever baseball broadcast: he had naval stations wire scores to his yacht on the way down the East coast

Sep/04: Presented BROMLEY's paper, The Constitution's Bodyguard at the 2004 Woodrow Wilson National Symposium at Staunton, Virginia.

May/04: BROMLEY thoughts on the great Long Island Parkway featured in webzine article, William Vanderbilt is a "hero" for Long Is Motor Parkway.

Mar/04: BROMLEY presented the paper, Early Automobiles and Airplanes: The Cultural Lag (Or Why Americans Didn't Care About Henry Ford and Orville and Wilbur Wright Until After 1909) at the Mar/31- Apr/3 Automotive History Conference at the Packard Museum in Dayton, OH.

Elsewhere, just posted a really nice, new review of Stretching It: The Story of the Limousine.

Feb/04: BROMLEY conducted three interviews for documentaries on Presidents and presidential transportation. Coming soon on the History and Speed channels.

Also, BROMLEY contributed to an Ohio Cable News piece on President's Day regarding W.H. Taft.

Dec/ 03: Two important reviews on BROMLEY's book,
 William Howard Taft and the First Motoring Presidency: click here.