Author: Ralph Nader
Publisher: New York : Grossman
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 396

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Account of how and why cars kill, and why the automobile manufacturers have failed to make cars safe.

Author: David Newhardt, Robert Genat
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781616730727
Category : Automobiles
Languages : en
Pages : 196

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Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Automobile industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 216

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Author: Paul Ingrassia
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476737479
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 536

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In Comeback, Pulitzer Prize-winners Paul Ingrassia and Joseph B. White take us to the boardrooms, the executive offices, and the shop floors of the auto business to reconstruct, in riveting detail, how America's premier industry stumbled, fell, and picked itself up again. The story begins in 1982, when Honda started building cars in Marysville, Ohio, and the entire U.S. car industry seemed to be on the brink of extinction. It ends just over a decade later, with a remarkable turn of the tables, as Japan's car industry falters and America's Big Three emerge as formidable global competitors. Comeback is a story propelled by larger-than-life characters -- Lee Iacocca, Henry Ford II, Don Petersen, Roger Smith, among many others -- and their greed, pride, and sheer refusal to face facts. But it is also a story full of dedicated, unlikely heroes who struggled to make the Big Three change before it was too late.

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Automobile industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 150

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Author: Paul Ingrassia
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 145164065X
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 402

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A narrative like no other: a cultural history that explores how cars have both propelled and reflected the American experience— from the Model T to the Prius. From the assembly lines of Henry Ford to the open roads of Route 66, from the lore of Jack Kerouac to the sex appeal of the Hot Rod, America’s history is a vehicular history—an idea brought brilliantly to life in this major work by Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Paul Ingrassia. Ingrassia offers a wondrous epic in fifteen automobiles, including the Corvette, the Beetle, and the Chevy Corvair, as well as the personalities and tales behind them: Robert McNamara’s unlikely role in Lee Iacocca’s Mustang, John Z. DeLorean’s Pontiac GTO , Henry Ford’s Model T, as well as Honda’s Accord, the BMW 3 Series, and the Jeep, among others. Through these cars and these characters, Ingrassia shows how the car has expressed the particularly American tension between the lure of freedom and the obligations of utility. He also takes us through the rise of American manufacturing, the suburbanization of the country, the birth of the hippie and the yuppie, the emancipation of women, and many more fateful episodes and eras, including the car’s unintended consequences: trial lawyers, energy crises, and urban sprawl. Narrative history of the highest caliber, Engines of Change is an entirely edifying new way to look at the American story.

Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance. Subcommittee on International Trade
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 248

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Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance. Subcommittee on International Trade
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Automobile industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance. Subcommittee on International Trade
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Automobile industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 216

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Author: United States Tariff Commission
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Commercial products
Languages : en
Pages : 1378

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