Tag: Jody Rosen
A disparate collection of chapters builds a sketchy picture of cycling then and now
According to the publisher, Jody Rosen’s Two Wheels Good: The History and Mystery of the Bicycle (The Bodley Head) is a panoramic revisionist portrait of the nineteenth-century invention that is transforming the twenty-first-century world. Our cycling expert, Ohio-based historian Duncan R. Jamieson finds this to be an incredible stretch for even the most optimistic cyclist. While acknowledging that it’s worth the read, he finds too many omissions and too little depth in a book that certainly is not about “the history and mystery of the bicycle”.
