Eric Mottram's "Blood on the Nash Ambassador" (1983)

London, England: Hutchinson Radius (book, essays), 1983.
8.75" x 5.5" x 1", 279 pages, hardcover with dust jacket, ISBN 0-09-182364-1.

Blood on the Nash Ambassador by Eric Mottram, as published by Hutchinson Radius (London, England) in 1983. A book of “Investigations in American Culture” by Eric Mottram – author of the book William Burroughs: The Algebra of Need.

William S. Burroughs supplies a blurb to the front cover: "Eric Mottram is a fine critic and essayist. He is truly an intellectual citizen of the twentieth-century world."

There are also a number of references to and quotes by William S. Burroughs within.

Contents:

• Preface
• "'The Persuasive Lips': Men and Guns in America, the West"
• "'That Dark Instrument': the American Automobile"
• "Blood on the Nash Ambassador: Cars and Trucks in American Films"
• "The Metallic Necessity and the New American: Culture and Technology in America 1850-1900"
• "Living Mythically: The Thirties"
• "Out of Sight but Never Out of Mind: Fears of Invasion in American Culture"
• "Dionysius in America"
• "'Laws Scribbled by Law-Breakers': Law, Confidence and Disobedience in American Culture"
• Notes
• Acknowledgments
• Index