"Karen Robert skillfully intertwines the histories of the iconic Ford Falcon, Ford Argentina and, above all, its workers... Her complex approach also offers attractive subplots for readers interested in the history of mobility and technology."

– Melina Piglia, The Journal of Transport History

"Instead of focusing on the diplomacy sustaining the dictatorship, Roberts exposes politics in action and the workers’ collective organising against corporate and dictatorship terror. By following the workers’ story, Robert illustrates the crimes against humanity inflicted on a population whose collective memory of a single car model proved to be a unifying factor in the struggle for justice."

– Ramona Wadi, NACLA

“Driving Terror seeks to bring the multifaceted story of the Falcon—including the experiences of the workers who built the car and survived state terrorism—to a broader audience. The book, with its accessible style and compelling narrative, undoubtedly achieves that goal. But its accomplishments extend further, combining conversations around repression and human rights abuses with analysis of Cold War material culture and connecting these findings to the history of labor relations under the Proceso….This impressive book should attract a wide readership and would be excellently suited to both undergraduate and graduate classes on Latin American history, material culture, human rights, and transnational justice work.”

– Edward Brudney, The Americas

"Driving Terror is ultimately a compelling story of Ford workers’ experience during and after the dictatorship, as well as a larger social and political history of car culture, labor mobilization, and the symbolic force of the Falcon from the 1960s to the present."

– Debbie Sharnak, H-Diplo, H-Net Reviews

“Karen Robert does a very effective job of tracing the role of Ford Motor Company in the socio-political life of Argentina, while she analyzes the competing images of its signature vehicle. She also introduces valuable labor history, and recent landmark rulings that, finally, conferred justice on a group of workers tortured on the grounds of their factory, a joint arrangement between Ford and the dictatorship... This is a valuable book that delves into important, but understudied, labor history.”

– Marguerite Feitlowitz, ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin America

“Before the darkened-windowed SUV became the preferred vehicle of the world’s death squads, there was the green Ford Falcon. Karen Robert’s extraordinary Driving Terror tells the story of how Argentina’s anticommunist military region of the 1970s turned an object associated with middle-class pleasure and working-class pride into an instrument of terror. A wonderful, creatively and thoroughly researched book that details how the Cold War was, in places like Argentina, a class war.”—Greg Grandin, author of Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City

“Few objects can encapsulate the history of twentieth-century Argentina as perfectly as the Ford Falcon, and Robert uses it effectively as a connecting thread to write a multilayered story of the company, the car, the workers, the military repression of labor, and the search for justice after the fall of the last dictatorship.”—Natalia Milanesio, author of Destape: Sex, Democracy, and Freedom in Postdictatorial Argentina